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Washington Post
May 3, 2008
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NEW ORLEANS -- The Army Corps of Engineers can be held liable for flood damage caused by a "hurricane highway," a navigation channel that is believed to have funneled Hurricane Katrina's storm surge into the city, a federal judge ruled. The Corps of Engineers had argued that it was immune from liability because the channel is part of New Orleans' flood-control system. Judge Stanwood Duval dismissed that argument, saying the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet was clearly a ship channel and not a flood-control project.
May 3, 2008
Pg. 5
NEW ORLEANS -- The Army Corps of Engineers can be held liable for flood damage caused by a "hurricane highway," a navigation channel that is believed to have funneled Hurricane Katrina's storm surge into the city, a federal judge ruled. The Corps of Engineers had argued that it was immune from liability because the channel is part of New Orleans' flood-control system. Judge Stanwood Duval dismissed that argument, saying the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet was clearly a ship channel and not a flood-control project.