The Corps of Engineers, meanwhile, has failed to produce plans for higher levees and coastal restoration that would provide so-called “Category 5” protection, as Congress has demanded.

同时，美国陆军工程师们并没有拿出增高堤坝和海岸线的合理方案，该计划曾被国会称为“第五类”的保护措施。

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The Corps of Engineers also maintains the levees that protect the city from being flooded by a surge from a hurricane, such as happened nearly three years ago when Hurricane Katrina passed through.

陆军工兵师团同时也负责维护河堤，使新奥尔良不受类似近3年前卡特里娜飓风那样的水灾侵袭。

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In New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has worked day and night to rebuild the floodwalls.

在新奥尔良，陆军工兵部队夜以继日地重建防洪堤。

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As part of the plan, the Army Corps of Engineers built roads, canals and water-control systems throughout South Florida.

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The following year, the Army Corps of Engineers signed a Project Cooperation Agreement with the state of Maryland.

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The Army Corps of Engineers has put an electric fence in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

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Billy Pruhoska, however, feels the report doesn't exonerate the Corps of Engineers.

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Local reports later said the levee was overtopped, not breached, but the Corps of Engineers reported it Tuesday afternoon as having been breached.

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The commander of the Army Corps of Engineers told CNN that only 40 percent of the pumping stations in New Orleans were working.

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