Corps Touts Fixed Levees as Storm Season Starts
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has met its goal of fixing battered levees around New Orleans as the new hurricane season starts, senior officials said.
Standing on a clay-and-dirt levee in St. Bernard Parish, which was inundated after Hurricane Katrina, Maj. Gen. Ronald Johnson said the Corps had repaired 169 miles of the 350-mile system.
“I think New Orleans can be confident in its hurricane protection system because it is better and it is stronger,” Johnson said after a helicopter tour.
The hurricane season begins today.
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