Raymond Seed
Raymond Seed
adequately designed expected levels perform
These levees should have been expected to perform adequately at these levels if they had been designed and constructed properly.
built conditions difficult land poor site situations tend turning
Levees tend to be built in very difficult situations on poor site conditions because you're essentially turning marshy land into land you can stabilize and do things on,
error human
Not just human error was involved. There may have been malfeasance.
multiple speaking terms
You have multiple agencies, some of which aren't on speaking terms with each other.
badly correlate evidence field hearing involved people stories
We're hearing from people who were involved and now feel very badly and want to make it right, ... What we have now is stories of malfeasance and some field evidence that would correlate with these stories.
hearing multiple nervous
What makes us nervous is we're hearing multiple accounts.