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January 9, 2007
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This is a segment from an animation showing how researchers suggest the 17th Street levee failed.
NSF supported more than 100 research projects in response to the destruction caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. One of the research teams studied the New Orleans levee system. This is a segment from an animation showing how the researchers suggest the city's 17th Street levee failed.
Credit: Trent Schindler, National Science Foundation
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