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Digging Deeper | K-12 Education

Post-Katrina Funds Fuel NOLA High School Rebuild

J.C. Canicosa
May 26, 2022

Mitigating hazards during demolition and the site’s residential location tested the team on the rebuild of Cohen College Prep High School.


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'Catastrophic' Ida Decimates Southeast Louisiana Electric Grid

All power transmission into New Orleans fails
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Pam Radtke Russell
August 30, 2021

Power company Entergy begins assessing the transmission failures, including all lines into New Orleans, with causes still largely unknown.


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Post-Katrina Levee System Weathers Ida's Fierce Winds, Surge

Autumn Cafiero Giusti
Jim parsons
Jim Parsons
Louise poirier
Louise Poirier
Tom sawyer
Tom Sawyer
Radtkerussellmug
Pam Radtke Russell
August 30, 2021
Louisiana contractors, federal and state officials and public and private infrastructure owners are assessing all damage from one of the worst storms to hit the state.
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How Hurricane Katrina Changed Thinking on Risk and Resilience

Autumn Cafiero Giusti
August 28, 2020
Fifteen years after the storm hit, its lessons are still being applied.
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Bermuda sod

Fortifying New Orleans’ Levees to Stem Erosion

Autumn Cafiero Giusti
July 27, 2020

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project is designed to augment a $14.6-billion storm protection system.


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Iberville housing redevelopment

Historic Site Complicates Housing Redevelopment

Project teams contend with historic renovation requirements and proximity to an ancient cemetery on housing project in New Orleans
Craig Guillot
June 9, 2016

Hurricane Katrina damaged much of New Orleans’ public housing more than a decade ago.


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ENR Letters

Letter: Levee Failture Clarification

May 25, 2016
In your story on the Permanent Canal Closures and Pumps project in New Orleans (ENR 5/9 p. 24), with regard to the severity of Hurricane Katrina’s storm surge in Lake Pontchartrain, wave heights were typically similar to those assumed for the design of the structures (IPET, vol. 1, p. 2).
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Flood Protection and Hurricanes

New Orleans Pushes to Finish Last Big Storm-Surge Project

The final post-Katrina flood protection project nears completion
Radtkerussellmug
Pam Radtke Russell
May 4, 2016

On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina winds pushed water from Lake Pontchartrain into New Orleans’ three major drainage canals, putting pressure on floodwalls-topped levees that failed to withstand the load of the water.


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Reporter's Notebook: New Orleans Residents Brace For Isaac's Arrival

Angelle Bergeron
August 27, 2012
Tropical Storm Isaac may be what New Orleanians need to scratch that seven-year itch.
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Last Big Modules Placed On New Orleans Defensive Ring

Angelle Bergeron
March 26, 2012
Alberici Constructors, St. Louis, installed two 230-ton sector-gate leaves at the Seabrook Floodgate Complex in New Orleans on March 15 and 17.
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