NEW ORLEANS, May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- With the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill now at 38 days and counting, people in SE Louisiana are frustrated at the slow pace of the response operation. And with the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2010, today's frustration hearkens back to another man made disaster that also threatened Louisiana's very core. Following the annual press briefing to announce Flood Protection and Hurricane Preparedness for the Greater New Orleans Region, the Business Council of Greater New Orleans and the River Region, which has coordinated the hurricane briefing for the past three years, concluded the presentation with a forceful appeal to the federal government.
WASHINGTON, April 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- With the official start of the 2006 hurricane season little more than a month away, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers continues to make significant progress toward its initial goals of repairing and strengthening those segments of the hurricane protection system that were damaged by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. There is a great deal of work yet to be completed and inspected to meet the 1 June goal," said Maj. Gen. Don T. Riley, USACE director of Civil Works. "The Corps continues to work aggressively with our many contractor partners to keep this work on schedule.
The public will be able to weigh in on possible projects to improve hurricane protection in the New Orleans area during meetings scheduled from April through June, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said. The New Orleans District of the Corps has released its schedule of spring Individual Environmental Report public meetings.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Comprehensive analysis to determine exactly what happened in the New Orleans hurricane and flood protection system during Hurricane Katrina is the mission of the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force (IPET). Established by the Chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the IPET is comprised of some of the nation's leading engineers and scientists from government (federal, state and local agencies), academia and private industry. The IPET analysis teams are all co-lead by representatives from independent organizations and personnel from the Corps. These experts will use some of the most advanced research tools, including laboratory testing and numerical and physical models, in their comprehensive study.
Major environmental and waterway projects in Hampton Roads and the rest of Virginia would be cut or drastically reduced under President Bush's proposed 2005 budget for the Army Corps of Engineers. The local casualties include: deepening Norfolk Harbor for Navy and cargo ships, restoring native oysters and studying a possible release of Asian oysters in the Chesapeake Bay, cleaning up the Elizabeth River and completing a hurricane-protection strategy for Virginia Beach's prized Oceanfront resort strip.
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