Worrisome Seepage at New Orleans Breach Repair Draws Outside Review
With some residents alarmed at seeping water, the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East voted July 17, 2008 to hire an outside consultant to review the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ assessment of the problem at the repaired breach site on the 17th Street outfall canal in New Orleans.
Since at least the end of 2007, the Corps has been monitoring two seepage spots located near where the I-wall at the 17th Street Canal failed and within the length of a 690-ft. replacement stretch of T-wall construction that was built according to the recommendations of Corps-sponsored forensic investigative team, the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force.