Army Corps Team Has "Eye" on New Orleans Safety: Hurricane Season 2009
Abstract
The day Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2005, a program manager with the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), North Atlantic Division, was in his office reviewing the region s flood risk management projects online. Little did he know that in the near future, he and his fledging coastal storm damage team would be asked to travel to New Orleans to see Katrina s devastation firsthand and perform a safety assurance review, ensuring that the Corps s rebuilding efforts would make the region safer for the citizens of New Orleans. When the 2009 hurricane season began in the Atlantic in June 2009, New Orleans residents were less vulnerable than they were the day after Katrina, due to the rebuilding efforts. However, they are still at some risk, even though the rebuilding has been moving aggressively forward by the Corps s New Orleans District and the Hurricane Protection Office. Both organizations are being led by Task Force Hope, an arm of the Corps s Mississippi Valley Division. Task Force Hope is on a tight deadline to get more than 200 designs and build storm damage risk-reduction features to be up and running by 2011 that include hurricane barriers, floodwalls, levees, and pumping stations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2009
- Accession Number
- ADA592830
Entities
People
- Joanne Castagna
Organizations
- United States Army Engineer School