Last week I posted on theWWL story of a contractor stuffing the joints of a NOLA floodwall with newspaper instead of rubber. I followed with another post called“I Iz Contractr.”
However given new information that post should have rightly been titled “I Iz ACE.” (Army Corps of Engineers).
Via Jeffrey is this from theTimes Picayune:
Corps officials said it used its own hired workers in 2006 to put in the newspaper filling, not a contractor.
As Alan atThink New Orleans asks:
Finally, who here can rest assured that “those three gaps were the only
ones where such a method was used?” This is about as laughable as
scandal as you could imagine and it’s especially funny that the
response is “It’s all good.”Will it take nothing short of another levee failure tocompel the Army Corps to answer questions?