If you’re under the mistaken belief that another Hurricane Katrina disaster won’t happen again in New Orleans, this report from WWL-TV might make you reasses…
A St. Bernard Parish resident reported seeing a Army Corps of Engineers contractor filling the expansion joint in a floodwall with newspaper. The Corps doesn’t seem to think it’s a problem, but an engineer contacted by the station says the use of substandard materials “could be very serious.”
They’d have been better off just dumping the federal dollars sent for levee and floodwall repairs right into the expansion joints…
