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Levees.org Levee Disaster Bike Tour

In May 2012, Levees.org launched its first Levee Disaster Bike Tour of three major levee breaches in New Orleans’s Main Basin. The 90-minute tour starts at the City Park Boat and Bike Rentals at Big Lake Trail. The tour was organized under the…

Tags: Army Corps of Engineers, Bellaire Drive, Katrina, Lakeview neighborhood, levee breach, Levees.org, National Register of Historic Places, New Orleans

Post Katrina, the repaired breach site of the 17th Street Canal consists of a new flood wall in the T-wall design rather than I-wall design. A T-wall is a reinforced concrete structure supported by foundation pilings with a non-structural steel sheet pile assembly beneath the levee. T-walls are not typically earth supported, are a significantly sturdier design, and are also three or more times more expensive to build than I-walls. <br /><br />
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Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force report

17th Street Canal Levee Breach in 2005

In 1965, Hurricane Betsy demonstrated that a major hurricane could overtop the earthen levees of the 17th Street Canal. So the Army Corps of Engineers recommended two cost-effective plans which were 1) raising the height of the canal walls or 2)…

Tags: Army Corps of Engineers, Bellaire Drive, Katrina, Lakeview neighborhood, levee breach, Levees.org, National Register of Historic Places, New Orleans