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New Orleans Hurricane Protection System
ASCE External Review Panel

Scope of Work

The ASCE External Review Panel will provide an objective technical review of the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force report findings on the performance of hurricane protection system in New Orleans and surrounding areas. The panel's scope of work will include:

Data collection about the condition of the hurricane protection systems, before, during and after Hurricane Katrina. [An ASCE assessment team was dispatched to New Orleans from October 4-15 to study physical evidence and collect field data. The data report was released on November 2.];
Review of project construction and maintenance;
Numerical modeling to characterize the storm surge;
Analysis of floodwalls, pumping stations and levee performance;
Analysis of the impacts of economic decisions associated with hurricane protection systems; and
Examination of the engineering and operational risk and reliability of the system.

The study is expected to be released in June 2006. Throughout the study, any important findings will be continually shared with those performing the New Orleans levee and floodwall reconstruction work.