How a Navigation Channel Contributed to Most of the Flooding of New Orleans During Hurricane Katrina |
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| Authors: | Ivor Ll van Heerden G Paul Kemp Robert Bea Gary Shaffer John Day Chad Morris Duncan Fitzgerald Andrew Milanes |
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| Institution: | (1) Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA;(2) National Audubon Society, Baton Rouge, LA, USA;(3) UC- Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA;(4) Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, USA;(5) CMor Consulting, Baton Rouge, LA, USA;(6) Boston University, Boston, MA, USA;(7) Environmental Science Services, Inc, Baton Rouge, LA, USA |
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| Abstract: | Levee failures during Hurricane Katrina left 85% of New Orleans flooded, 1,500 dead, and about 400,000 homeless. Three separate
investigations into the levee failures have been concluded, yet none of these studies conclusively determined why the St Bernard
polder flooded so deeply, despite Team Louisiana’s conclusion regarding early failure of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet
(MRGO) levees. Detailed wave and hydrodynamic modeling reported here reveals the cause of extensive breaching of the MRGO
levees and how that created a very efficient conduit of surge water into the heart of the city. |
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