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With partners HKV Lijn in Water and Fugro, Royal Haskoning has won a new contract for water control structures in New Orleans. The project will develop a module that allows the local flood protection authority to monitor the opening and closing of gates on all flood defences. It is expected that the module contributes to a improved planning and coordination. The new system has to be operational for the peak of the hurricane season in September 2010.

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The latest official update from the National Hurricane Center shows Tropical Depression Bonnie as a tropical disturbance that may be falling apart. However, the official forecast model still predicts that Bonnie will head toward the Louisiana coastline over the weekend, possibly bringing tropical-storm-force winds …

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The latest official update from the National Hurricane Center shows Tropical Depression Bonnie as a tropical disturbance that may be falling apart. However, the official forecast model still predicts that Bonnie will head toward the Louisiana coastline over the weekend, possibly bringing tropical-storm-force winds …

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The latest official update from the National Hurricane Center shows Tropical Depression Bonnie as a tropical disturbance that may be falling apart. However, the official forecast model still predicts that Bonnie will head toward the Louisiana coastline over the weekend, possibly bringing tropical-storm-force winds …

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The latest official update from the National Hurricane Center shows Tropical Depression Bonnie as a tropical disturbance that may be falling apart. However, the official forecast model still predicts that Bonnie will head toward the Louisiana coastline over the weekend, possibly bringing tropical-storm-force winds …

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Hurricane Katrina’s deluge was Biblical. When it hit Louisiana and Mississippi the morning of August 29, 2005, the storm caused fearsome destruction. Then the disaster grew worse. The levees ? the man-made walls built to protect New Orleans from the water surrounding it ? failed. Their collapse flooded 80 percent of the city. By the time the waters receded and the survivors regrouped, Katrina, and then Hurricane Rita, had claimed more than 1,400 lives and the dreams of hundreds of thousands.

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The north Atlantic hurricane season begins June 1 and lasts through November 30. The U.S. Census Bureau produces timely local data that are critical to emergency planning, preparedness and recovery efforts. This edition of Facts for Features highlights the number of people living in areas that could be most affected by these dramatic acts of nature…

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