Worst Engineering Ever

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Worst Engineering Ever

(from http://www.livejournal.com/community/neworleans/1793938.html)

 

 

The flooding of New Orleans was caused by: Incompetent design by the

Army Corps of Engineers.

 

From article in today's Times-Picayune:

 

" This is the largest civil engineering disaster in the history of the

United States. Nothing has come close to the $300 billion in damages

and half-million people out of their homes and the lives lost. Nothing

this big has ever happened before in civil engineering. "

 

" That miscalculation was so obvious and fundamental, investigators

said, they " could not fathom " how the design team [...] could have

missed what is being termed the costliest engineering mistake in

American history. "

 

So. It wasn't that the storm was worse than the city's protection

system was supposedly designed to deal with.

 

It wasn't that some corrupt SOB local contractor or politician

massivley skimped on mateials to line their own pocket (which had been

my guess).

 

It was that the ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS screwed up the design from the start.

 

Read the full Picayune article

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1133336859287360.x\

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