Report: New Orleans Levees Underfunded

Salon.com | News Wires: "NEW ORLEANS -- The city's levee system was routinely underfunded and therefore inadequate to protect against hurricanes, according to an independent report released Monday.

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'You tend to get what you pay for,' Dave Rogers, a member of the team of academics who extensively studied the system, said during a Monday news conference.

The study was performed by the Independent Levee Investigation Team, led by the University of California, Berkeley. The group has been highly critical of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which was in charge of designing and building the complicated system."

(Via Salon.)