Levees in New Orleans

Levees in New Orleans

An update on what several teams of investigators have determined caused some levees in New Orleans to fail post-Katrina and current efforts to ensure that these errors are not replicated.

An update on what several teams of investigators have determined caused some levees in New Orleans to fail post-Katrina and current efforts to ensure that these errors are not replicated.

Guests

Col Lewis Setliff

Army Corps of Engineers, head of Corps task force responsible for rebuilding the levees in New Orleans

Edward Link

senior fellow, civil and environmental engineering,Univeristy of Maryland.
director of a Army Corps of Engineers task force investigating the levee failures in New Orleans

Raymond Seed

professor of engineering, University of California, Berkeley and head of an independent investigative task force funded by the National Science Foundation

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