Judge Finds Government At Fault For Levees Breaking During Katrina

By News One November 19, 2009 10:41 am

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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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  • 12-29-2009 7:11 pm

    america has a machine called HAARP in alaska that can intesify storms and cause earthquakes. Watch the movie ‘Holes In Heaven’ on youtube, you will see its 100 percent true. Katrina was designed to kill blk people thats why they blew the levies, and to test out HOW TO CARRY OUT MARTIAL LAW. THERE WILL BE MARTIAL LAW AGAIN SOON.

    WE are being herded towards a catastrophe and most ppl are asleep at the wheel. Reseach ‘Bilderberg Group’ ‘Fall of The Republic’ on youtube people need to learn who their real masters are, what we are being taught about our world is lies on a matrix scale

  • 11-23-2009 3:45 pm

    If you value your HEALTH and your Childrens health you need 2 spare 1 hour of your time 2 view something I found very disturbing 2 say the least and it may come in2 fruition on December 31, 2009
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  • 11-23-2009 3:45 pm

    If you value your HEALTH and your Childrens health you need 2 spare 1 hour of your time 2 view something I found very disturbing 2 say the least and it may come in2 fruition on December 31, 2009
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    CODEX ALEMETARIUS
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  • 11-22-2009 9:33 pm

    get money f*** the rest.!All day

  • 11-22-2009 11:15 am

    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! ;-)

  • 11-21-2009 4:07 pm

    there’s and old Reverend here in Chicago

    O.C. Nicks
    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

  • 11-21-2009 12:50 pm

    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

  • 11-21-2009 12:30 pm

    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.

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