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Hearings

U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Title: Hurricane Katrina: Why Did the Levees Fail?
Date: 11/2/05
Time (EST): 9:30 AM
Place: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Rm. 342
To view the Preliminary Report on the Performance of the New Orleans Levee Systems click here.

To view Dr. van Heerden's presentation click here.

To view Dr. Seed's presentation click here.

To view Dr. Nichols' presentation click here.
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Witnesses Testimony
 
Panel 1
  Ivor van Heerden [View PDF] , Ph.D. , Louisiana Team Leader , Forensic Data Gathering
  Paul Mlakar [View PDF] , Ph.D. P.E. , Senior Research Scientist , U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
  Raymond B. Seed [View PDF] , Ph.D. , Team Leader , National Science Foundation
  Peter Nicholson , Ph.D. , Team Leader, Levee Assessment Team , American Society of Civil Engineers



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