New System to Protect New Orleans Completed Just as Hurricane Season Gets Underway

Name: New System to Protect New Orleans Completed Just as Hurricane Season Gets Underway
Uploaded: 2022-05-31T21:21:17.000Z
Channel: The Weather Channel
Description: Seventeen years after Hurricane Katrina and just as the new Atlantic hurricane season gets underway, the Army Corps of Engineers has put the finishing touches...

ByTWC - Digital•

June 11, 2022

Updated: June 11, 2022, 10:19 am EDTPublished: May 31, 2022, 5:21 pm EDT

Seventeen years after Hurricane Katrina and just as the new Atlantic hurricane season gets underway, the Army Corps of Engineers has put the finishing touches on a vast system of levees, floodgates and pumping stations designed to protect New Orleans.