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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (151162)	12/15/2005 11:58:31 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793843

It seems to me, all evidence is that no levee was overbreeched. All the failures were due to wall failure. I believe in the foundation area. That is a weight of water failure. The failure was not that the storm exceeded the design criterion. The failure was because levee construction did not meet design criterion. I don't think the location of Lake Ponchatrain mattered. It was not the active surge as much as the passive weight of the surge that over time of hours created structural failure.