[StBernard] Corps of Engineers contrite for Katrina flooding

[Westley Annis]

That's so very nice of them.  Can we now get compensation from them for what
they poorly designed and built?
 
JLY


 

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	Corps of Engineers contrite for Katrina flooding 
	Corps vows to prepare better on first day of 2006 hurricane season
	The Associated Press
	
	
	Updated: 4:29 p.m. CT June 1, 2006
	NEW ORLEANS - A contrite U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took
responsibility
	Thursday for the flooding of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina and
said the
	levees failed because they were built in a disjointed fashion using
outdated
	data.
	
	"This is the first time that the Corps has had to stand up and say,
'We've
	had a catastrophic failure,"' Lt. Gen. Carl Strock, the Corps chief,
said as
	the agency issued a 6,000-page-plus report on the disaster on Day 1
of the
	new hurricane season.
	
	The Corps said it will use the lessons it has learned to build
better flood
	defenses.
	
	"Words alone will not restore trust in the Corps," Strock said,
adding that
	the Corps is committed "to fulfilling our important
responsibilities."