Floodwall evidence not that "incredibly damning"?
Tags: floodwalls, engineering, army corps of engineersRegarding the NBC report discussed in "Incredibly damning" evidence found about flood walls, commenter GeoBandy says the following here:
"Out of tolerance" in this context means "not plumb" (or straight) and has absolutely nothing to do with the strength or adequacy of the levee… in fact the contractor admitted and agreed that the levee was adequate for its intended purpose…
…There's nothing in these documents that indicates anybody ever claimed the contractor (or the completed levee) didn't meet specs, resulting in a "weak" levee (or wall)…
But there's NOTHING in these documents that says ANY party ever said the levee as completed was "weak" or in any way inadequate or defective. It may have been defective in some way, I obviously don't know that. But these documents certainly don't lead to that conclusion.
