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Flawed Construction Key to New Orleans Levee Failures

22nd Sep 2005, 00:16 GMT

Researchers are suggesting that flawed construction -- not storm surges -- likely caused key floodwalls around New Orleans to fail. They say the waters of Lake Pontchartrain never got high enough to rise above the walls and erode their foundations, the early explanation for the levee collapses.

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