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Date: 10/07/2019

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00:01:20 1 Background
00:04:53 2 Levee repairs
00:05:02 2.1 Pre-storm preparations
00:06:26 2.2 Flooding
00:08:26 2.3 Recovery
00:10:26 2.4 Construction
00:12:29 2.5 Water flow stopped
00:14:22 2.6 Breach closed
00:15:14 2.7 Pumping and moving on
00:21:06 2.8 Final critical breach closed
00:23:17 2.9 September 13
00:25:55 2.10 Halfway done
00:29:25 2.11 September 18
00:31:11 2.12 Preparation for Hurricane Rita
00:32:05 2.13 Hurricane Rita's flooding
00:32:30 2.14 November and December
00:32:53 2.15 Completion of temporary repairs
00:33:17 2.16 Future improvements
00:35:10 3 Bridges, Roadways, and Railways
00:36:07 4 Other infrastructure repair
00:41:00 5 See also



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This article covers the levee system and infrastructure repairs in New Orleans, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina.Though Hurricane Katrina did not deal the city of New Orleans a direct hit on August 29, 2005, the associated storm surge precipitated catastrophic failures of the levees and flood walls. The Mississippi River Gulf Outlet ("MR-GO") breached its levees in approximately 15 places. The major levee breaches in the city include the 17th Street Canal levee, the London Avenue Canal, and the wide, navigable Industrial Canal, which left approximately 80% of the city flooded.While ownership, definition of requirements, operation and maintenance of the system belonged to the Orleans Levee Board, federal responsibility for New Orleans' flood protection design and construction belongs by federal mandate to the US Army Corps of Engineers.
Flooding from the breaches put the majority of the city under water for days, in many places for weeks. The Corps made emergency repairs to breaches, as pumps worked at draining the city. Hurricane Rita brushed the city nearly a month later, causing reflooding of some areas, most significantly from water flowing through incompletely repaired levee breaches.