Re: Is New Orleans finished ?

In article <df5h8j0un1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Winfield Hill <Winfield_member@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> even tho the water was below its top. It's speculated that the levee's
> base failed. We need ways to test these issues. That's something the
> Dutch know a lot about, and we could learn from them.

GPR doesn't work well into wet soil but resistivity survey methods do. I
think resistivity would be the best way to see into the levees.

BTW: There was a plan to improve the levees and some of it was done but
this year the budget was cut to 20% of what was needed for the program.

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