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...tall, rangy Corps veteran, Lieut. Colonel Lewis Setliff, head of Task Force Guardian, the group charged with repairing the levee system. Setliff's team has been given an $800 million pocketbook to repair more than 200 miles of levee damage and construct three unique floodgate systems to stop storm surges from riding into the city via the three drainage canals breached after Katrina. The Corps admitted last week that two of the three floodgates it was building for the job would not be finished on June 1, as promised. The anticipated delay--a month in the case of one gate...
Setliff is soothing and honest, admitting that the Corps is "struggling" with designs never before built. Engineers, he notes, had to start construction before finishing the designs in hopes of beating the first storm. Though they'll miss the deadline, he says, "there is really little risk [from hurricanes] in June." Just in case, the Corps has a backup plan: pilings already stacked at the scene can be driven into the canal bed to stop storm surges--a job that would take three days to complete in the "worst case," Setliff promises. That plan, put into effect along Lake Pontchartrain...
...outlined $40 million in work needed to repair more than 60 city pumps, a number of them made at the beginning of the 20th century. But the process takes so much time--35 days--that the repair work won't be finished until fall, toward the end of the storm season...
GIVEN ALL THE UNCERTAINTIES, THE CITY'S evacuation plan is simple: Get out of town before a bad storm strikes. Vera Trippett, 34, stood in her three-bedroom ranch house in Gentilly last week, contemplating the rapidly approaching hurricane season. Her house stewed for weeks in 10 ft. of nasty water after Katrina. She's reluctant to put her trust in the levees, but, she says, "I do have faith in the Corps' need not to be embarrassed again." As a result, she and her husband John are finishing repairs. They have gutted their house, put in hurricane-resistant windows...
While stressing that residents should arrange for their own evacuation, Nagin has promised that buses and trains would take those without transportation, as well as the elderly and people with special medical needs, to out-of-town shelters before a storm hits. The state, which has responsibility for transportation, has already contracted with private coach companies and school districts for an unknown number of buses. State help is key since the Regional Transit Authority, which runs public transportation in New Orleans, has only about 100 operating buses that survived Katrina. A new system of processing evacuees at two locations...