Report: Corps needs to be candid about New Orleans' future risk

A new independent appraisal of the work to restore and analyze the catastrophic failure of levees during Hurricane Katrina says engineers have not been candid enough with the public about the risks of living in this low-lying city.

The report also said the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers needs to do a better job of establishing the parameters for what it will take to build a system to buffer New Orleans against future big storms.

Engineers with the National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council released their observations Wednesday after sifting through a 6,000-page interim report commissioned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the deluge of New Orleans.

from the Times Picayune

read the NAS report