Levee and Floodwall Performance

摘要

On Monday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast. The effects of the storm were being felt in the New Orleans area during the early morning hours. The storm produced a massive surge of water on the coastal regions that overtopped and eroded away levees and floodwalls along the lower Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish, along the eastern side of St. Bernard Parish, along the eastern side of New Orleans East, and in locations along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, Figure 1.