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To: carranza2 who wrote (1634)	12/5/2005 2:39:28 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 2253

It could have been there weren't enough inspectors. That's a management problem. I hate to think that the inspectors were corrupt. I've seen very few instances of corruption in my life, and they were all prosecuted aggressively. Another possibility is poor training for the inspectors. I find that hard to believe. Lastly, perhaps unseen conditions came into play, in which case the design and the inspection would have been dependent on discovery of the condition. When that happens there is usually a change order involved, which gets very expensive. If the condition isn't discovered, which may or may not have been the case in Louisiana, construction goes on as planned, and awaits a failure scenario. One time I observed a visitor center under construction. The contractor put in some timbers in a perfectly fine way to my unpracticed eye, but the inspector said they were not according to spec (even though equally functional), and the contractor was forced to remedy the situation. I am not claiming to be any sort of expert in levee construction. I've seen only a few in place, in the San Francisco Bay area, and I know nothing of the requirements. They do scare me by their very nature. By which I mean, you can't fool mother nature very long and get away with it.