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"In order to minimize later floods, the strategy was to dig the river channel deeper," [Joe N. Ballard] said. "This straightened the river for shipping and reduced the size of the flood plains."
"While this solved the problem of flooding, the increased force of the river damaged the coastline and the barrier islands," asserted Ballard. "This left New Orleans more exposed to hurricane damages.""Hundreds of blacks died in the 1927 flood because they were put at risk," Ballard asserted. "And hundreds of blacks died or lost their property from Hurricane [Katrina] because adequate levees were not built."See the full content of this document
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Lt. Gen. Fought to Protect New Orleans
The suffering of the victims of Hurricane Katrina is especially painful to Lt. Gen. Joe Bullard. As the first black named chief of engineers,...
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