Army Corps of Engineers map shows deliberate levee breach
Hurricane Katrina
Army Corps of Engineers Deliberate Breach of New Orleans
Levees.
OK, relax, this might not be
entirely what it looks like,
(a conspiracy theory)
But, yes, they DID
breach some levee's on purpose.
They were breached to
help "unwater" areas of New Orleans.
Below is the map that
indicates this, taken from the Army Corps of Engineers website.
This is the page with the maps,
and other information below.
You can read all 70
pages, but, i will save you some time.
I already have.
There is NO indication
at what time ANY of these deliberate breaches took place.
There is NO indication
as to HOW, or even the particulars of WHY.
There is NO information if these deliberate breaches helped in any way.
It seems curious to
me, that as much information is provided on this site
about the unwatering
process, one would think those questions would be answered here.
An unwatering team, was placed in Memphis, 1 day before Hurricane
Katrina.
MVR
Command and control group mobilized to lead task force for Unwatering.
Below,
Blue
star:
Task force Unwatering BREACH (deliberate)
Below,
IHNC,
is what we (in New Orleans) refer to the Industrial Canal.
This
is the canal that was responsible for most of the flooding in
the 9th ward.
The
9th ward, is mostly very low income.
Below,
The
"unwatering process" was not held to normal procedures,
which would have needed a permit from the EPA.
The
Army Corp of Engineers was directed to "minimize potential impacts",
although there was an EPA rep on the scene.
The
letter was issued August 30th, but major flooding had not occurred !
Did
they foresee major flooding ?
Why
did the EPA rep (on scene) not grant the permit ?
The
CEMVN arrived in Vicksburg Miss on Sept 2 2005.
The
CEMNV established contact with EPA on scene commander on September 4
2005.
The Shaw Group announced on Aug. 30, one day after Katrina hit, that it was in contact with FEMA to mobilize assistance.
Its stock rose 21 percent in two days and 32 percent the week after their news release.
Four no-bid contracts awarded by the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) to house Hurricane Katrina victims have ballooned in
value from $400 million to more then $3.4 billion. This increase has
prompted renewed scrutiny from Congress and auditors about the disaster
agency's management (or lack there of) of the aftermath of Katrina.
The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general is, for at
least a second time, reviewing the contracts with construction and
engineering firms Bechtel Corp., CH2M Hill Inc., Fluor Corp., and the
Shaw Group Inc. to provide 150,000 trailers for hurricane victims, even
as FEMA still expects to competitively award at least $1 billion for
similar work in future contingencies within days.
Katrina: disaster profiteers pocket millions in deals
A year after Hurricane Katrina, the reconstruction of the devastated
Gulf coast is being severely hampered by waste and inefficiency
overseen by
"disaster profiteers" who are making million of dollars, according to a watchdog group.
The group claims the inefficiency - along with the companies' political connections
- follows a pattern similar to what happened in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In the Black(water)
Tens of thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims remain without homes.
The environment is devastated. People are disenfranchised. Financial
resources, desperate residents are told, are scarce. But at least New
Orleans has a Wal-Mart parking lot serving as a FEMA Disaster Recovery
Center with perhaps the tightest security of any parking lot in the
world. That's thanks to the more than $30 million Washington has
shelled out to the Blackwater USA security firm since its men deployed
after Katrina hit. Under contract with the Department of Homeland
Security's (DHS) Federal Protective Service, Blackwater's men are
ostensibly protecting federal reconstruction projects for FEMA.
Documents show that the government paid Blackwater $950 a day
for each of its guards in the area. Interviewed by The Nation last
September, several of the company's guards stationed in New Orleans
said they were being paid $350 a day. That would have left Blackwater
with $600 per man, per day to cover lodging, ammo, other overhead--and
profits.
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Since
our beloved Government under President Bush, has been so
"transparent"
(to use a word he was fond of in talking about Iraq's "WMD's")
We should look at this information very closely,
if it is indeed been made public.
If it has not, it needs to be, and YOU need to tell congress that our
government
should be "transparent"
Brad
Never
cease in the fight for
peace, justice, and equality for all people.
Be persistent in all that you do and don't allow anyone to
sway you from your conscience.
---Leonard
Peltier
"Let
them call me a rebel and I welcome it; I feel no concern
from it;
but I should suffer the misery of demons should I make a whore of
my soul."
-Thomas Paine
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