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| Federal Judge Says Corps of Engineers Liable For Katrina Damage
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| from the too-bad-a-judge-didn't-do-the-engineering dept.
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| posted by timothy on Friday November 20, @08:11 (The Courts)
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|https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/0742226/Federal-Judge-Says-Corps-of-Engineers-Liabl|
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "The Christian Science Monitor reports that a
federal judge has ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers — and thus the
US government — is liable for a big chunk of the damage caused when
hurricane Katrina pushed ashore on August 29, 2005 by [1]failing to stop
the natural widening of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet canal (aka Mr.
Go) causing it to eventually bump up against the shore of Lake Borgne, on
the city's east side. 'It is the court's opinion that the negligence of
the corps, in this instance by failing to maintain the MR-GO properly,
was not policy, but insouciance, myopia, and shortsightedness,' wrote US
District Court Judge Stanwood Duval. [2]Judge Duval said he believed it
was the failure to shore up the outlet that 'doomed the channel to grow
to two to three times its design width' allowing waves on Lake Borgne to
enter the Mr. Go and travel into the east side of the city, battering the
levees to a degree to which they were not designed. 'One of the greatest
catastrophes in the history of the US' was both predictable and
preventable, testified veteran Louisiana geologist Sherwood Gagliano, a
former Corps consultant."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/20/0742226
Links:
0.http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1.http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1119/p02s20-usgn.html
2.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8367702.stm
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