New Orleans — As the Atlantic hurricane season has gotten underway, a new study published Friday by researchers at Tulane University reveals hotspots in New Orleans’ concrete flood walls which had been strengthened in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The study found that the city’s concrete flood walls are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, reducing capacity to block storm surges in some neighborhoods.
“There is certainly a potential in the future, if these rates continue, to degrade our level of protection of the flood protection system,” Tulane professor Mead Allison, a co-author on the study, told CBS News…