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'Human error' doomed New Orleans levees

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Engineers' report suggests faults in design and construction.

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  1. Preliminary Report on the Performanceof the New Orleans Levee Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005, http://hsgac.senate.gov/_files/ Katrina/Preliminary_Report.pdf (2005).

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  1. Emma Marris
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Marris, E. 'Human error' doomed New Orleans levees. Nature (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/news051031-9

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