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The New Orleans Hurricane Protection System

Published By	Publication Date	Number of Pages
ASCE	2007	93

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This report focuses on the direct physical causes and contributing factors to the failures of the hurricane protection system during and after Hurricane Katrina.

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PDF Pages	PDF Title
1	Cover
4	Table of Contents
6	EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
10	CHAPTER 1: Introduction
11	Interagency Performance Evaluation Taskforce ASCE’s Hurricane Katrina External Review Panel
12	Other Teams of Investigators This Report
14	CHAPTER 2: New Orleans
15	A City on the River
16	Development on the Marshes
17	New Orleans is Sinking
18	The People of New Orleans
19	A Cultural Treasure
20	CHAPTER 3: Hurricane Katrina The Storm
22	Wind, Water, and Waves
26	CHAPTER 4: Hurricane Protection System
29	Standard Project Hurricane Levees and Floodwalls
31	Datums and Elevations Interior Drainage and Pump Stations
34	CHAPTER 5: The Levees Fail Storm Surge Damage
36	Cracks in the System
37	Flooding Ensues
40	A City Under Water
41	Pump Stations Shut Down
42	CHAPTER 6: Consequences Tragic Deaths
44	Exposure, Injury, and Disease
46	Catastrophic Financial Losses
48	Had the Hurricane Protection System Not Failed Cascading Financial Impacts
50	Prospects for Economic Growth Long Term Health and Safety
52	Evacuees and Their Receiving Communities
54	Impacts to New Orleans’s Culture
55	The Natural Environment
56	CHAPTER 7: Direct Causes of the Catastrophe 17th Street Canal Breach
57	Soil Strength Over-estimated
58	Factor of Safety
59	The Water-Filled Gap
61	London Avenue Canal South Breach
62	Oversimplified Assumptions
63	The Water-Filled Gap – Again
64	London Avenue Canal North Breach
65	Industrial Canal East Bank North Breach Industrial Canal East Bank South Breach and Industrial Canal West Bank Breach
66	Industrial Canal West Bank South and All Other Levee Breaches
68	Pumping System: Useless During Hurricane Katrina
70	CHAPTER 8: Contributing Factors Risk to New Orleans Not Fully Appreciated
72	Hurricane Protection System Constructed Piecemeal
74	Hurricane Protection System Under-designed
75	Many Levees Not High Enough
77	No One Entity Is In Charge of Hurricane Protection
80	External Peer Review Lacking
81	Funding Process Flawed
82	CHAPTER 9: What Must We Do Next? Understand Risk and Embrace Safety
85	Re-evaluate and Fix the Hurricane Protection System
88	Revamp the Management of the Hurricane Protection System
89	Demand Engineering Quality
92	Acknowledgements
93	Credits