Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
340 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510