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Take the Levee Challenge
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Question Number One:
The 17th Street Canal breached and flooded the Lakeview neighborhood of New Orleans because:
A. pre-Katrina, the Orleans Levee District failed to report a leak near the breach site.
B. the Army Corps drove sheet pilings into the canal's levees to depths that were too shallow.
C. water overtopped the levee and caused erosion and failure.
