Rebuilding the Levees of New Orleans

The great city is colorful, diverse and long lasting; New Orleans is a jewel. Rich history, culture, natural resources New Orleans brings great benefits to other places and to our beautiful country. For Spike Lee's notorious documentary "When the dam was destroyed", we face many tragic imagery, but we never had a problem. On Sunday, November 20 th, 2005, Times-Picayune, Sharon Keating wrote in her editorial saying:

Since the city settled in 1717, New Orleans and surrounding areas have been protected by potential floods of the Mississippi River in various ways. After the devastating flood of 1927, the Army Corps of Engineers started a large river embankment repair plan. Since then, this river protection system has been implemented as expected. When Hurricane Betsy submerged a part of New Orleans in 1965, coastal protection became an additional authority of the Corps. Before Hurricane Katrina arrived, Federal and regional efforts focused on providing protection against storms defined by the US Marine and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as a standard project hurricane. Shortly after the construction began, NOAA increased the estimated size of the hurricane for the standard project

Due to the storm of Hurricane Katrina, 53 levees were destroyed by the dam system built by the federal government and prevented the failure of the New Orleans subway and the 40 arpent canal. Many of the New Orleans subway dams were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in the eastern part of the city. There was no damage to the embankment of the Mississippi River by subway of New Orleans. New Orleans and its surrounding communities, especially the St. Bernard parish failed. The Mississippi Bay Exit (MR - GO) broke through the dam at about 20 places, most of it flooded in New Orleans in the east, most of the St. Bernard 's Diocesan and Prakmain Diocese. Major dam damage in the city includes levees of 17th canal canal, London Avenue canal, extensive industrial canal, about 80% of the city is flooded.

In New Orleans, 23 storms occurred in the embankment of a drainage canal and a canal and a flood embankment due to storm surge. According to the "Flood Prevention Law" in 1965, the responsibility for the design and construction of urban levees belongs to the US Army Corps of Engineers and its maintenance responsibility belongs to the orlean embankment. Embankment and embankment failures between Hurricane Katrina were considered by experts to be the most serious engineering disaster in American history. As of August 31, 2005, 80% of New Orleans flooded, and some areas had water levels below 15 ft (4.6 m). Because they are over the sea, the famous French and garden areas have escaped floods. The main damage includes 17th Street Canal Embankment, Industrial Canal Embankment and London Avenue Canal Flood Control Embankment. According to the report by the American Society of Civil Engineers in June 2007, these damages caused the majority of floods.