In the Critical Places, the Simple Sandbag Fills the Breach
9/8/2005

One of the lasting images of the New Orleans disaster will be that of helicopters ferrying sandbags into place along the city's breached levees and floodwalls. Flood control and recovery is a low-tech activity and the sandbag still is the preferred method.


A Blackhawk helicopter seems to be aiming at the bullseye of concentric waves generated on the surface of a breached canal. (Photo by Michael Goodman for ENR)
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