Army Corps of Engineers finds trouble in survey of system
(NEWSER) – Apparently Hurricane Katrina wasn't enough to make America fix its levee system. Seven years after that disaster, hundreds of America's levees are poised to fail, the AP reports, based on an early look at the US Army Corps of Engineers' first ever inventory of the nationwide flood control system. So far, the Corps has only checked 1,451 of the nation's 2,487 levees, but of those, only 121 were deemed fully acceptable, while 1,004 were merely "minimally acceptable" and 326 were in dire need of repair.
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