Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 47 levee failures 46 levees 43 Lt. Gen. Carl Strock 43 levee breaches 42 saltwater intrusion 41 breached levees 41 sewer backups 41 By BLAIR KERKHOFF 41 Bonnet Carre Spillway 41 spillway gates 40 pumps 40 levee breach 40 spillway 40 Army Corps 40 By SAM MELLINGER 40 By ANTHONY ANDRO 40 Morganza Spillway 40 levee 40 overtopping 40 By DIANE STAFFORD 39 inspector general 39 GAO 38 Government Accountability Office 38 flooding 38 sadistic blatant 38 By RANDY COVITZ 38 floodwalls 38 Gov. Kathleen Babineaux 38 hydrologists 37 sewage overflows 37 By KENT BABB 37 earthen levees 37 By BOB DUTTON 37 Levees 37 USACE 37 bd.className + = 37 river crests 36 overtopped 36 Climate Impact Assessment 36 Pettitte misremembers 36 dike 36 By PAMELA YIP 36 Coast Guard Rear Admiral 36 precautionary evacuations 36 deemed structurally deficient 36 overland flooding 36 William Moschella 36 IBWC 36 investigative arm 36 SIGIR 36 backflow 35 river crested 35 General Accountability Office 35 FEMA 35 Morganza spillway 35 NOPD 35 spillways 35 rated structurally deficient 34 Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba 34 sump pumps 34 Metropolitan Sewer 34 Flood Control 34 Ice jams 34 National Marine Fisheries 34 ProPublica 34 Morganza 34 Judge Emmet Sullivan 34 sewer overflow 34 floodings 34 Snowmelt 34 Mayor Ray Nagin 33 hydrological 33 Gen. Peter Schoomaker 33 Sporkin 33 pallid sturgeon 33 drainage canals 33 Disease Registry 33 SFWMD 33 MRGO 33 blowout preventer 33 #W bridge 33 SIGAR 33 storm surges 33 spokeswoman Julie Zawisza 33 valves 33 inundation 33 dams 33 ATSDR 33 ice jams 33 lakh cusecs 33 inundate 33 NTSB 33 dam spillway 32 earthen levee 32 unclassified summary 32 hydrologic 32 floodwall 32 Kosi river 32 Peter Schoomaker 32 river deltas 32 floodwaters