Judge Finds Government At Fault For Levees Breaking During Katrina
From The L.A. Times
In a ruling that could leave the government open to billions of dollars in claims from Hurricane Katrina victims, a federal judge said late Wednesday that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had displayed “gross negligence” in failing to maintain a navigation channel — resulting in levee breaches that flooded large swaths of greater New Orleans.
U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval peppered his 156-page decision, issued in New Orleans, with harsh criticism of the Army corps, at one point citing its “insouciance, myopia and shortsightedness” in failing to maintain the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, known locally as MRGO.
For more than 40 years, the judge said, the corps had known that a crucial levee protecting suburban St. Bernard Parish and the Lower 9th Ward neighborhood would be compromised by the deterioration of the channel. The corps had “myriad” ways to address the problem, he wrote, but failed to do so.
Duval awarded a total of $719,000 to a small group of flood victims that sued the government in April 2006.
But according to Pierce O’Donnell, the lead plaintiff’s counsel, roughly 100,000 New Orleans-area residents and businesses who have filed flood-damage claims with the Army corps were now potentially eligible for payment.
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I8ThaPussSoRite12-29-2009 7:11 pm
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Thanx, Maatra! I was gonna say the same thing about the ‘Flood’ of 1927. Aaron Neville remade a song by another guy called ‘1927′. It’s about the very same thing. Thanx for educating people as to the REAL history of New Orleans and our plights in dealing with a corrupt-ass Govt.! Also.. Thanx to Mr_NanaStroker for his input into more important facts revealing more dysfunctional New Orleans history.
9-Ward for life!
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I remember when this happened (I do not attend church but this man has presided over a lot of family passings and I was also accompanying my cousin) he stated that back in 1920? the first time the Levees gave way the White community way of living and houses and businesses where being destroyed…..they took the Black community in the surrounded areas ROUNDED THEM UP….AND FORCED THEM 2 PUT SANDBAGS ACROSS 2 STOP THE FLOODING….it got so hectid 2 a point where if they were not working FAST ENOUGH they would shoot them DOWN LIKE DOGS
American History you will never learn in school
My bad that was 1927 got the date mixed up wit the bombing of Blackwallstreet.
Goddamn them peckerwoods was phukin us over good in the twenties to start off they great depression in the 30’s
Those goddamn levees was BLOWN UP. This aint the first time it happen.
When divers went in and grab some of the levee remains they found burnt marks on them that came from millitary type of explosive
Many ppl heard explosions just before the water came in
John berry a writter for the new york post or times wrote in his book the “The Rising Tide” how rich peckerwoods compromised the levees and flooded out the 9th ward back in 1921
Those government bastards flooded us out so they can come in and rebuild placing all types of golf courses condos hotels and shyt for the rich.