Summary
NEW ORLEANS - The Army Corps of Engineers is proposing to divert as much as $1.3 billion for levee repairs from the Mississippi River's East Bank, which was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, to the West Bank, where tens of thousands of people have resettled.
The West Bank was one of the only parts of the New Orleans metropolitan area spared the flooding that followed the 2005 hurricane. But the levees protecting it - and the roughly 250,000 people who now live there - are inadequate, the corps concedes.See the full content of this document
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Shift Is Sought in Levee Funding
If approved, the plan has the potential to slow ne...
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