print email comment close Investigators Release Preliminary Findings of Levee Failures at Senate Hearing URL: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/11/02_levee.shtml Description: Article about how "many of the New Orleans levee and floodwall failures in the wake of Hurricane Katrina occurred at weak-link junctions where different levee or wall sections joined together, according to a preliminary report released [in November, 2005] by independent investigators from the University of California, Berkeley, and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)." Includes links to the Senate testimony and the full report. From the University of California, Berkeley. Author: Yang, Sarah Publisher: UC Regents Extra Keywords hurricanekatrina levy Library of Congress Subject Headings: Civil engineering Flood control -- Louisiana -- New Orleans Levees -- Design and construction LII Database Information: Record 19723 created by Maria Brandt on 11/14/2005 Last modification on 11/16/2005 Published: 11/17/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/19723