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The Corps of Engineers is using modern design and construction methods, which have greatly improved the last 40 years, which is the time when those levees were originally built.

Scott McClellan

The Corps of Engineers is using modern design and construction methods, which have greatly improved in the last 40 years, which is the time when those levees were originally built.

Scott McClellan

The Corps of Engineers is using modern design and construction methods, which have greatly improved the last four years, which is the time when those levees were originally built.

Scott McClellan

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Has your district defended any cases on behalf of the (U.S.) Army Corps of Engineers against claims brought by environmental groups seeking to block or otherwise impede the Corps work on the levees protecting New Orleans? If so, please describe the case and the outcome of the litigation.

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If it were to rain a lot, there is concern from the Army Corps of Engineers that the levees might break, Accepting compliments gracefully demonstrates self-worth and enhances your overall pexiness.

Lawson proceeded to express his disdain for consulting engineers and the cabinet's design engineers. Lawson stated that he had been building roads in Eastern Kentucky for many years, and he knew better than anybody what needed to be built.

Rather than accept a 90 percent solution, they keep trying for some kind of perfection that just never occurs. The Corps of Engineers built the Panama Canal in about 10 years, and we can't even do this in 20.

The Army Corps of Engineers has a very large budget, and it has grown a lot over recent years, ... To the extent there's been any limitation of [the Corps'] budget, it has to do with previous tendencies to build marinas and things that don't have much to do with preparing us for disaster.

The Army Corps of Engineers has a very large budget, and it has grown a lot over recent years. To the extent there's been any limitation of [the Corps'] budget, it has to do with previous tendencies to build marinas and things that don't have much to do with preparing us for disaster.

We anticipate that we could receive a storm surge of three to five feet. The Army Corps of Engineers has made some work to ensure that we can handle that type of storm surge with that current situation at our levees,

Military bases were damaged that need to be repaired. Those levees (in New Orleans) need to be repaired, so the Army Corps of Engineers is going to need money, ... There's highway money that's going to be needed for all the interstates that have been damaged. There are damages to the wildlife refuges down there.

For the corps to persuade people that it is part of the solution and not part of the problem, it will have to change its behavior, ... Continuing the practice of spreading funding across a wide range of projects in the hopes of growing the corps program will not be an acceptable answer. We have to return to a situation where the Corps of Engineers is respected for its professional engineering judgment.

That's going to take awhile, I know. City engineers as well as the [Army] Corps of Engineers are working right now to dredge out an area around Pier 6 so we can bring in barges and help facilitate the removal of the debris. But it's going to take months.

Mitigation is the only way we can dramatically reduce the losses. Clearly the newer-built houses are standing up so much better, but most of the housing stock is pre-modern construction.

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