Here is a link to a cache of popular science.
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:OvtudVKFeosJ:www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,20967,1049488,00.html+new+orleans+levees+raise&hl=en
New Science wrote:New Orleans has nearly completed its Hurricane Protection Project, a $740-million plan led by Naomi to ring the city with levees that could shield residents from up to category-3 storm surges. Meanwhile, Winer and others at the Army Corps are considering a new levee system capable of holding back a surge from a category-5 hurricane like Ivan, which threatened the city last year.
Except Bush cut off their last $250m funding.
New Orleans Times-Picayune wrote:It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us.
-- Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004.
Here is an up-to-date story on it.
