NEW ORLEANS ... during Katrina, but it took on nearly 2 feet (60 centimeters) of water during Hurricane Isaac in 2012. "We haven't had these problems until everybody else's levees worked ...

But the New Orleans area's $15 billion federal hurricane protection system – a network of surge barriers, floodwalls and bolstered levees erected after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 – mostly did ...

The New Orleans area levees infamously crumbled during 2005's Hurricane Katrina, exposing fatal design flaws. But 19 years after the catastrophe, the city is still paying for the flood protections ...

The post-Katrina hurricane levees surrounding the New Orleans area and the Mississippi ... Seepage improvements at seven locations, shown on the map above, that could include relief wells to ...

[Related: Hurricanes can pack a one-two punch: the storm, then deadly heat] What’s often forgotten in the national imagination of Hurricane Katrina is that New Orleans’ levees weren’t ...

New Orleans was ordered evacuated last night after levees weakened by Hurricane Katrina gave way and the roiling waters of Lake Pontchartrain flooded the historic jazz city. “The magnitude of th ...

Katrina damaged 169 miles of the 350-mile hurricane system that protects New Orleans and ... to serve as a road map for engineers as they seek to design and build better levees and floodwalls.

Despite more than $22 million in repairs, a levee that broke with catastrophic effect during Hurricane Katrina is leaking again because of the mushy ground on which New Orleans was built ...

Hurricane Ida drew comparisons to 2005's Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged New Orleans and overwhelmed its aging levee system exactly 16 years earlier. Ida knocked out power to New Orleans and ...

The prospect of “another Katrina” has haunted New Orleans, and the rest of the nation. By Richard FaussetKaty Reckdahl and Chelsea Brasted NEW ORLEANS — As Hurricane Ida began violently ...

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