Subsidence, weak links in the levee system and poor funding also played a role in disaster, study says. (Photo courtesy of FEMA)
The system “did not perform as a system,” says Ed Link, director of the Corps-sponsored Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force. In addition to directing IPET, Link is a senior fellow and senior research engineer at the University of Maryland. He released the task force findings in New Orleans on June 1, the beginning of hurricane season and the deadline set by the Corps to restore flood protection to per-Katrina standards.