Aerial view of London Avenue Breach Site

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This file appears in: London Avenue Canal Levee Breach in 2005

Aerial photo by NOAA August 31, 2005. Note a home (upper left) pushed into the middle of the street from catastrophic force of water flowing through breach.

This file appears in: London Avenue Canal Levee Breach in 2005

By Levees.org
In 1965, Hurricane Betsy demonstrated that a major hurricane could overtop the earthen levees of the London Avenue Canal. So the Army Corps of Engineers recommended two plans -- raising the height of…