ASCE does PR campaign for Corps of Engineers

In a press conference, the grassroots group Levees.Org released records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act revealing that just weeks after levees failed in New Orleans, the people responsible for making the levees, the US Army Corps of Engineers directed and later paid an engineering group to communicate lessons learned from Katrina. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) received $1.1 million in taxpayer money to peer review the official levee failure study post-K. At the presser, Levees.Org shows how power point presentations by ASCE downplayed the fault of the Corps, overstated the responsibilities of the local authorities, diluted the need to alter levee building standards nationwide, and overstated the vulnerability of the city and the strength of the storm.

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