17th Street Canal Pumps Fail Inspection

NEW ORLEANS – They are the pumps designed to drain flood water in the event of a tropical storm or hurricane. However, some of the pumps at the 17th Street Canal have been pulled out of the site after inspectors discovered problems with six of the hydraulic pumps there. Keep Reading

Army Corps: A Bureaucratic Nightmare?

The Army Corps of Engineers was granted a brief reprieve after Hurricane Katrina from the time-consuming bureaucratic maze that typically delays completion of levee and coastal restoration projects for years and even decades. Keep Reading