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Corps Delivers 100-year Protection Plan for New Orleans

Written by Randy Post
Thursday, 21 February 2008
The US Army Corps has issued conceptual plans with elevations for proposed improvements to New Orleans flod protection system. Levees, floodwalls and closure structures will be designed for a 100-year storm surge. Achieving the conceptual design has required "a great deal of rigor, including the modeling of 152 storm events and 64,000 hydrographs," Park says. "The elevations you see here are based on probabilistic analysis of a 1% level of risk each year." Source: ENR technorati tags: USACE New Orlenas levees Katrina storm surge ! Trackback(0) TrackBack URI for this entry Comments (0) Subscribe to this comment's feed Write comment Show/Hide comment form Name Email Title Comment Write the displayed characters
Last Updated ( Thursday, 28 February 2008 )