Lessons from Katrina for our aging levees

In honor of the 5th anniversary of the partially manmade disaster that was Hurricane Katrina, here is a classic paper from an angry civil engineer about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and New Orleans levees doomed to fail. Many lessons to be learned as California’s fragile Delta levee system teeters on the brink of catastrophe. To learn more, CLICK HERE:

http://levees.org/WFMarcusonIII.pdf
 

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