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  2. 2005 levee failures in Greater New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    A preliminary report released on November 2, 2005, carried out by independent investigators from the University of California, Berkeley and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) stated that many New Orleans levee and flood wall failures occurred at weak-link junctions where different levee or wall sections joined together.

  3. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civil works controversies (New ...

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    Duval's decision left the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board and Orleans Levee District as defendants in the lawsuit. [50] The dismissal of the lawsuit also denied about 489,000 claims by businesses, government entities, and residents, seeking trillions of dollars in damages against the Corps, which were pinned to the suit and a similar one ...

  4. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civil works controversies

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    In January 2008, the District Court ruled that even though the US Army Corps of Engineers was negligent and derelict in their duty to provide flood protection for the citizens of New Orleans, he was compelled to dismiss a class action lawsuit filed against the Corps for levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina due to FCA 1928 which protects the ...

  5. New Orleans’s improved levees hold amid Ida’s onslaught, but ...

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  6. Civil engineering and infrastructure repair in New Orleans ...

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    By Thursday, September 8, Entergy had restored 9 of 17 electricity generating units in the New Orleans area to service. Entergy's 1000 MW Waterford and Watson plants were still out of service, with the Watson plant expected to require 6–12 weeks to repair. By Friday, electrical power had been restored to 11% of New Orleans customers.

  7. New Orleans' $15 billion levee held. But another ... - AOL

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  8. Memorial Medical Center and Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia

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    Memorial Medical Center [a] in New Orleans, Louisiana was heavily damaged when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. [1] In the aftermath of the storm, while the building had no electricity and went through catastrophic flooding after the levees failed, Dr. Anna Pou, along with other doctors and nurses, attempted to continue caring for patients. [2]

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