[StBernard] Levee Report Hammers Corps of Engineers

[Westley Annis]

Dear Members,

A report released May 22 by the U.C. Berkeley Led Independent Levee
Investigation Team concludes that the levees failed because of design and
construction errors resulting from insufficient money and lack of
appropriate oversight by federal, state and local agencies, in particular
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.  
 
The report funded by the National Science Foundation clearly states that the
death and destruction in New Orleans was a result of human failings not
nature's fury.    

In pristine engineering language, the report confirms what the people of New
Orleans and South Louisiana knew all along with common sense.  That the
federally built levees broke because they weren't designed right by the
Corps and that the errors of the local levee boards was paying too little
oversight to the work of the Corps.  

Go to http://www.levees.org/main.php for summary highlights of the
engineering errors as they relate to the flooding of New Orleans, New
Orleans East, St. Bernard and the Lower 9th. 

Meanwhile, Congress has yet to to approve funding for 4.2 billion in
community block grants to help compensate the citizens of New Orleans and
Louisiana.  This funding is in danger of being slashed!  You can help by
going to http://www.levees.org/advocacy/congress1.php   Send your letters
today asking Congress to fulfill their moral responsibility to the people of
New Orleans and South Louisiana by approving the 4.2 billion in community
block grants.

Thank you,
Sandy Rosenthal
Founder, Levees.Org
www.levees.org