Corps of Engineers Completes New Orleans Canal Cleanup

If the word "canal" brings to mind images of Suez and Panama, or of singing gondoliers in historic Venice, think again. Hundreds of miles of canals snake through southern Louisiana parishes -- manmade waterways draining storm water to pump stations that hoist it up and outside the regional levee systems. Since Hurricane Katrina visited the area Aug. 29, very few of these waterways had been usable.

Dept of Defense Press Release