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Performance Evaluation of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Protection System

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The FINAL Volumes of the Interagency Performance Evaluation Taskforce (IPET) are now available by clicking on the links below. All nine Volumes are FINAL. Also below is the IPET supplemental report, "A General Description of Vulnerability to Flooding and Risk for New Orleans and Vicinity: Past, Present and Future" that provides a non-technical explanation of the risk assessment process for the pre-Katrina, 2007, and 2011 Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction Systems.

Volume I. Executive Summary and Overview (Main Text & Appendices)
Volume II. Geodetic Vertical and Water Level Datum (Main Text) (Technical Appendices)
Volume III. The Hurricane Protection System (Main Text - Part 1) (Main Text - Part 2) (Technical Appendices)
Volume IV. The Storm (Main Text) (Technical Appendices)
Volume V. The Performance - Levees and Floodwalls (Main Text) Technical Appendices (1-10) (1-15) (16-23)
Volume VI. The Performance - Interior Drainage and Pumping (Main Text) (Technical Appendices)
Volume VII. The Consequences (Main Text) (Technical Appendices)
Volume VIII. Engineering and Operational Risk and Reliability Analysis (Main Text)
   (Technical Appendices: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15) )
Volume IX. General Appendices

A General Description of Vulnerability to Flooding and Risk for New Orleans and Vicinity: Past, Present and Future (non-technical risk explanation paper)

A Press Release announcing the release of these FINAL volumes is provided here.

*** These reports are the independent opinion of the IPET and are not necessarily the official position of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

posted 8 Sept 2009

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