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This is not a new levee breach up there. It's just that the old one hasn't been repaired.

Bob Benjamin
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One lesson we learned from Katrina is that you don't wait 'til the levee breaks to take action.

Dan Mclagan
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Even though it was affected by the hurricane, it wasn't in the area where the levee broke.

Patrick Duffy
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We've got 10 teams out there, figuring out what consequences were, ... We'll shortly be looking at the design, as well as how it (the levee system) was actually built, doing borings and getting a lot of additional information.

Carol Sanders
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During the floods of '93 and '95, there were opportunities that surfaced where we could improve the integrity of the levee.

Susan Wilson
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They are continuing levee security patrolling and sandbagging operations.

Robert King
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This levee collapse is eventually going to change the codes and the safety factors.

Thomas Eagar
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If it's politics as usual driving their choice, they will choose to fragment the levee board in another patronage politics smokescreen.

Jay Lapeyre
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When you compare 1.3 for a levee safety factor with another safety factor that may be used in a different type structure, you don't always have an apples-to-apples comparison.

Tony Young
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It turned out we were all wrong, we had not adequately anticipated, ... The thing that changed this was not Katrina itself, the thing that was the catastrophic event was the failure of the levee.

Frances Townsend
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Because of the levee situation ... if we had an event come to New Orleans, I believe we'd get more water in the area.

Bill Doran
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We're not worried about the Mississippi River levee. Is it a concern? Yes, it is a concern, but it is not a top concern.

Susan Jackson
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That's what's so devastating, that goddamned levee breaking. My home didn't lose a shingle but it's got six feet of water in it.

Bobby Patrick
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There is an eaglet. I was out there (Wednesday) afternoon, and I saw it from the top of the levee with a spotting scope. I saw the head of one; it popped up, and (the adults) were feeding it.

Charlie Deutsch
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Our worst fears came true. The levee will breach if we keep on the path we are on right now, which will fill the area that was flooded earlier.

Barry Guidry
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For people to feel confident about coming back again, they're going to have to rebuild the levee system.

Ivor Van Heerden
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It's an accident, but in today's world someone has got to be accountable for everything. Like the levee in New Orleans -who would have expected that to happen?

Brad Marshall
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Everybody anticipated the breach of the levee, Mr. President.

Mary Landrieu
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People here are focused on and demanding safety from future flood devastation. We formed this group out of frustration at the response to levee safety by Louisiana legislators.

Ruthie Frierson
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I think the fact is that Newport on the Levee was about four, five, six years ahead of its time.

Jack Mcgrory
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What these guys are doing is, they're bringing this levee up to 10 feet, and pre-Katrina, this levee was between 7 and 8 feet.

Al Waller
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That was atrocious. It hurts. We just handed them the game We had the game under control. We were executing, doing the things we needed to do and it was just like the levee broke and there it was. There are no excuses. We blew it.

Erron Kinney
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