Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Corps chief admits to 'design failure' 

Was Katrina a "man-made" disaster? Here is more evidence that the failure of the 17th street flood wall was caused by a design flaw.
"In the closest thing yet to a mea culpa, the commander of the Army Corps of Engineers acknowledged Wednesday that a 'design failure' led to the breach of the 17th Street Canal levee that flooded much of the city during Hurricane Katrina.
Lt. Gen. Carl Strock told a Senate committee that the corps neglected to consider the possibility that floodwalls atop the 17th Street Canal levee would lurch away from their footings under significant water pressure and eat away at the earthen barriers below.
'We did not account for that occurring,' Strock said after the Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing. 'It could be called a design failure.' "
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