{"id":7299,"date":"2019-06-07T15:23:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T20:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=7299"},"modified":"2019-06-11T23:29:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T04:29:55","slug":"after-a-14-billion-upgrade-new-orleans-levees-are-sinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=7299","title":{"rendered":"After a $14-Billion Upgrade, New Orleans&#8217; Levees Are Sinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"article-header__title t_article-title\">A Cautionary Tale About Big Engineering Fixes<\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"t_article-subtitle\"><em>Sea-level rise and ground subsidence will render the flood barriers inadequate in just four years<\/em><\/h4>\n<p class=\"t_article-subtitle\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/thomas-frank\/\">Thomas Frank<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/e-e-news\/\">E&amp;E News<\/a>, <time>April 11, 2019<\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-progress\" data-behavior=\"article_progress\">\n<div class=\"article-grid-outer container \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The $14 billion network of levees and floodwalls that was built to protect greater New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was a seemingly invincible bulwark against flooding.<\/p>\n<p>But now, 11 months after the Army Corps of Engineers completed one of the largest public works projects in world history, the agency\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/assets\/2019\/04\/11\/document_ew_01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says<\/a>\u00a0the system will stop providing adequate protection in as little as four years because of rising sea levels and shrinking levees.<\/p>\n<p>The growing vulnerability of the New Orleans area is forcing the Army Corps to begin assessing repair work, including raising hundreds of miles of levees and floodwalls that form a meandering earth and concrete fortress around the city and its adjacent suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of this article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/after-a-14-billion-upgrade-new-orleans-levees-are-sinking\/?fbclid=IwAR37ottA1M8tWO70F9U3GA-WEhe0SsvzuQYNSRcehlzZtUdqcjYHkH52ju0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Scientific American<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7300\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/New-Orleans-levees-Mario-Tama-Getty-Images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/New-Orleans-levees-Mario-Tama-Getty-Images.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/New-Orleans-levees-Mario-Tama-Getty-Images.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/New-Orleans-levees-Mario-Tama-Getty-Images-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Orleans levees. Photo credit Mario Tama, Getty Images.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cautionary Tale About Big Engineering Fixes Sea-level rise and ground subsidence will render the flood barriers inadequate in just four years By Thomas Frank, E&amp;E News, April 11, 2019 The $14 billion network of levees and floodwalls that was built to protect greater New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7302,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299\/revisions\/7302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}