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  • Corps of Engineers to restore pre-Katrina protection in New Orleans

    09/30/2005 5:17:06 PM PDT · by SandRat · 7 replies · 343+ views
    ARNEWS ^ | Sep 29, 2005 | Alan Dooley
    NEW ORLEANS (Army News Service Sept. 29) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced today it is establishing a new team here to begin restoring federal elements of New Orleans’ battered hurricane-flood system to provide pre-Hurricane Katrina protection. The team – dubbed Task Force Guardian – consists of a cadre of Corps personnel from the Mississippi Valley Division’s St. Louis District as well as a larger group from the New Orleans District. Initially, this mission has been assigned to Col. Lewis F. Setliff III. Setliff normally serves as commander and district engineer in St. Louis. As the New Orleans...
  • IEM to Lead Development of Hurricane Plan for LA [Co. with Witt connections got contract in 2004]

    09/06/2005 9:48:15 PM PDT · by syriacus · 7 replies · 282+ views
    Insurance Journal ^ | June 9, 2004
    IEM Inc., a Baton Rouge, La.-based emergency management and homeland security consultant, announced it will lead the development of a catastrophic hurricane disaster plan for Southeast Louisiana and the City of New Orleans under a more than half a million dollar contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In making the announcement today on behalf of teaming partners Dewberry, URS Corporation and James Lee Witt Associates, IEM Director of Homeland Security Wayne Thomas explained that the development of a base catastrophic hurricane disaster plan has urgency due to the recent start of the annual hurricane...