"Sacrificial Steel": Is the Corps Dooming Eastern New Orleans Again?

Huffington Post by Harry Shearer | Sep. 20, 2010 (News)

(Blog Post) Corps higher-ups have authorized the refusal to rust-coat the steel "sheet piling" being driven to anchor floodwalls in the eastern half of the city. This is where your $14 billion is going, America. Into "sacrificial steel." Full Story »

Posted by Jon Mitchell - via Huffington Post (Featured), Kaizar Campwala (f), Jon Mitchell (f)

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Subjects: U.S., Sci/Tech
Topics: Hurricane Katrina, Natural Disasters
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Posted by: Posted by Jon Mitchell - Sep 20, 2010 - 8:16 PM PDT
Reviewed by: Jon Mitchell (review)
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Edited by: Jon Mitchell - Sep 22, 2010 - 12:06 PM PDT

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 by Jon Mitchell - Sep. 22, 2010

Good reporting, good explaining, but the story needs more context. This is useful for people familiar with the issues here, and who know the details about how the Corps failed to protect New Orleans in the past, but it needs links to these crucial historical cases referenced in this short article.

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