A small memorial stands at the location of the levee failure.
Several investigations have attempted to examine the cause of the levee failures.
However, the local government lost most of its files in the flood that followed the levee failure.
The panel would study the results provided by the two existing teams of experts that had already examined the levee failures.
Along less populated stretches of river there were major levee failures today.
He uses stopped clocks to create his map, which is needed to work out what storm conditions caused the levee failures.
The most frequent (and dangerous) form of levee failure is a breach.
But he was not yet ready to conclude that a critical levee failure had occurred.
By the evening of August 29, 2005, approximately 28 levee failures were reported throughout the city.
A levee failure was responsible for major flooding in Lower 9th Ward.