Was the Levee Blown up?

The latest theory is partly rooted in historical fact. In 1927, the levees were bombed to save parts of the city, and black neighborhoods were inundated. ... New Orleans columnist Lolis Eric Elie says the federal government badly neglected black Americans during Katrina, but he does not believe the levees were blown up.

Did the levee break in Katrina?

A federal judge in New Orleans ruled in 2009 that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain and operate the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet was a significant cause of the catastrophic flooding during Katrina. Levee failures near Lake Pontchartrain also flooded New Orleans neighborhoods.

Did they rebuild the levees?

Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina exposed the New Orleans area's levee system as a "system in name only," its redesign and reconstruction — at a cost of $14.6 billion — is finally almost complete, with only a few stretches of armoring still under construction, a senior U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official said ...