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Corps Scraps Levee Project in Barataria Basin

WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio | By The Associated Press
Published June 28, 2012 at 10:27 AM CDT

The Army Corps of Engineers says it's scrapping plans to build a levee system to protect a large area of south Louisiana against hurricane flooding on the Barataria estuary southwest of New Orleans.  The corps says the project wasn't economically feasible.
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