Before Hurricane Katrina breached a levee on the New Orleans Industrial Canal, the Army Corps of Engineers had already launched a $748 million construction project at that very location. But the project had nothing to do with flood control. The Corps was building a huge new lock for the canal, an effort to accommodate steadily increasing barge traffic.
Except that barge traffic on the canal has been steadily decreasing. Read the entire article here in the Washington Post.
I was mildly surprised to read in this paper that the stinginess of the Bush administration was not responsible for the breech of the levees.
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