At this time, we haven't fully understood the failure mechanisms at all of these locations. |
Construction might continue past June ... but it will be capable of protecting from a hurricane. |
I think it's going very well given where we started. We expect it to be pretty much 24 hours a day. |
In hindsight again, you would like to see a higher factor of safety today. But, you really can go back to the same two things: the actual failure mechanism was not anticipated and then the sheer strength at the toe of the levee was weaker. |
We have never seen this in the New Orleans district. |
We need to breach those levees to let the water out of the system. We've got many tasks going at once on these situations. |
We're attempting to contract for materials, such as rock, super sand bags, cranes, and also for modes of transportation like barges and helicopters, to close the gap and stop the flow of water. |
We're getting access to areas we could not get to, and that's going to help us greatly. It's not a large (pumping) capacity at this point ... but at least it's progress. |
We're pretty confident that's going to get finished today. The sheet pile will close the canal to the lake. |
We're using a variety of materials, adapting the engineering to what we can find. |
We're working every avenue to do whatever we can to get things back in order. We're going to accomplish the mission of getting the water out of the city. |
We're working every avenue we can. |