Billy Pruhoska, however, feels the report doesn't exonerate the Corps of Engineers.
Local reports later said the levee was overtopped, not breached, but the Corps of Engineers reported it Tuesday afternoon as having been breached.
The commander of the Army Corps of Engineers told CNN that only 40 percent of the pumping stations in New Orleans were working.
"These closures are essential so that water can be removed from the city, " a statement from the Corps of Engineers' headquarters in Washington said.
O'LEARY: On the corner of Brookfield Street, Harry Stevens(ph) is getting what's called a blue roof, courtesy of FEMA and the Corps of Engineers.
Then came Katrina, which moved the scale of disasters to a new level (with the added element of negligence by the Corps of Engineers).
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So it's like the Corps of Engineers removed a coastal barrier that used to be made out of ice and the coast is no longer protected.
General Honore, who's been sort of leading this effort of the Corps of Engineers in the city, has been discussing in general terms what's going to happen.
The company claims that because of poor planning combined with multiple failures, the Corps of Engineers didn't create enough storage capacity for water even when very heavy rainfall was predicted.
As of Wednesday evening, 17 bays were open at Morganza -- one more than earlier in the day -- moving water at an estimated 114, 000 cubic feet per second, the Corps of Engineers said.
Post-Katrina, the Corps of Engineers built gates to close off the canals in the event of a storm surge threat, and equipped them with pumps that lift rainwater up and over the closed gates.
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That flood, ironically, spurred the creation of the Corps of Engineers, empowering them to create systems to guard against further calamities -- and giving them the authority to let waters flow from some levees to wash away some areas in order to spare others.
Although infrastructure expenses will be paid directly by the federal government (rebuilding or strengthening levees, for instance, is the job of the Army Corps of Engineers), the White House is already giving hints that it wants the post-Katrina assistance to showcase its preferred kind of government: more focus on tax incentives and vouchers than big federal hand-outs.
The lawsuit, filed by a coalition of conservation groups, calls on the state of Florida, the US department of the interior and the US army corps of engineers to fulfil the requirements of laws designed to protect the manatee.
There is a role for the Department of Transportation, as I understand it, and the Army Corps of Engineers, but most of the permitting here is -- because it does not cross an international border -- is done by local and state governments.
For example, in 2002, the White House directly ordered the firing of former Republican congressman Mike Parker of Mississippi as head of the Army Corps of Engineers because he publicly disagreed with the administration's budget request for his agency.
The New York Times reports that a team of specialists from the Army Corps of Engineers has been deployed to help pump water out of the flooded subway tunnels.
Two teams of engineers, one funded by the state of Louisiana and one based at the University of California, Berkley, have previously put the blame on the Army Corps of Engineers and on a weak layer of ground below the canal walls.
Not surprisingly, he does not discuss the many disasters that dot the history of public intervention (the Army Corps of Engineers and flood control come to mind).
And Assistant to the President for Homeland Security John Brennan will join officials from FEMA, the Department of Transportation, and the Army Corps of Engineers to view impacted areas in Hoboken, Newark, and Jersey City, New Jersey, as well as Staten Island, New York.
After years of planning and delays, in 2009 the Army Corps of Engineers started construction on a project, funded by the Department of Interior, to replace one mile of the road with a bridge.
The US Department of the Interior, the Department of Energy (DOE), and the US Army Corps of Engineers are quietly laying the groundwork for a renewable energy boom that you might not expect.
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The engine will be removed "in a matter of days" by the Army Corps of Engineers or a federal contractor, Jones said.
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Wetland loss has been caused by the Army Corps of Engineers channeling the Mississippi for flood control, with the result that all the sediment in the river is being lost over the continental shelf.
From a French fur trader with an iron hand to the Army Corps of Engineers reshaping the riverbed, Indian casinos built on brownfields to 280, 000 radioactive mice buried at the Falls, many of Niagara's stories are like the drums secreted in its landfills: shoved out of sight, covered over to look presentable, and driven by with glazed eyes, a quick flick of the radio volume.
Don Riley, director of civil works for the Army Corps of Engineers.
At first the Army Corps of Engineers said they thought the storm surge had overtopped the concrete flood walls, washing them out from behind.
The Coast Guard and the Army Corps of Engineers have continued surveying the area and deemed it "dangerous for vessels to travel through, " he said.
The Army Corps of Engineers had built up the beach, but the ocean still flows to a creek that curves around the back of Coney Island.
The Army Corps of Engineers has been studying the project since the mid-1990s, and though it is not expected to release its final recommendation until this autumn, both the GPA and conservation groups expect the deepening to happen.
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