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Demand the 8/29 Investigation Act!

Follow the simple steps below and demand the 8/29 Investigation Act,
a truly independent and truly complete analysis of the flood protection
failures in metro New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.

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February 09, 2010

Subject:

A recent announcement by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) that they have convened a task force to address criticisms on how the ASCE conducts its peer reviews is yet another reason to support the 8/29 Investigation Act, an independent and complete analysis of the flood protection failures on August 29, 2005 that flooded New Orleans and the surrounding region.

The ASCE, chosen by the corps to peer review the official levee investigation, has recently been cited in an ethics complaint by an ASCE member who details an early intentional plan by the Corps to hide its role in the flooding and intimidate those who tried to intervene.

Meanwhile, the impartiality of the corps-sponsored investigation, the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force (IPET) had already been in question.  A disproportionate number of participants were corps employees, essentially charged with investigating their own work. Of the top three leaders, two work for the Corps of Engineers and one did so for 15 years.  Eighty percent of the participants worked for the Corps of Engineers or its sister agency, Army Research and Development.

More importantly, since the corps-sponsored IPET findings were released on June 1, 2006, two private independent levee investigation teams (the National Science Foundation/U.C. Berkeley and Team Louisiana) have criticized the report as both incomplete and technically inaccurate. All of this while the IPET's potentially flawed findings are being used to repair and fortify the south Louisiana flood protection system which protects the lives and property of 1.5 million people.

Given the stakes, an objective irrefutable analysis is needed to find out how to move forward and rebuild metro New Orleans' flood protection.  Taxpayers need a full return on the investment dollars that Congress authorizes and the citizens of south Louisiana need the best protection possible.

End the controversy.  Please support the 8/29 Investigation Act.

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