Raymond Seed Quotes

You have multiple agencies, some of which aren't on speaking terms with each other. - Raymond Seed

What makes us nervous is we're hearing multiple accounts. - Raymond Seed

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. - Raymond Seed

They should rethink the entire flood protection system of New Orleans. It is a real hodgepodge of authority. If there was a coordinated effort, more could be done with less money. - Raymond Seed

These levees should have been expected to perform adequately at these levels if they had been designed and constructed properly... Not just human error was involved. There may have been malfeasance. - Raymond Seed

Our concerns have been pretty well addressed. - Raymond Seed

Not only did they have that in their repertoire of information, they failed to use it, as best we can tell. - Raymond Seed

Not just human error was involved... There may have been malfeasance. - Raymond Seed

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. - Raymond Seed

It made no sense to us to line miles of canals with levees and then leave a gap like that. It basically failed before the storm began. - Raymond Seed

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