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	2005 levee failures in Greater New Orleans was one of the Natural sciences good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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So I was watching an interview with David Simon, the creator of 'The Wire' and another series on the New Orleans floods. He mentioned that the hurricane was only a category 1 by the time it hit NOLA and the reason the levees were breached were due to unsecured barges left by companies that had left them in the river. So, I looked it up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ING_4727
https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/fourteen-years-later-new-orleans-is-still-trying-to-recover-from-hurricane-katrina
https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/l/Levee_failures_in_Greater_New_Orleans%252C_2005.htm
https://www.law360.com/articles/88194/excess-insurers-liable-to-50m-in-katrina-barge-crash
https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_77c03069-5291-5a1f-ad7e-e7b44075817c.html
https://www.nola.com/news/weather/article_80569f99-daf2-5a6d-8a49-f1f6c293630e.html

I would obviously add this to the article, but I'm sure it will be reverted within a matter of seconds so am bringing it up here. Apeholder (talk) 17:13, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This and Hurricane Katrina are about the same thing. ConcentratedCobalt (talk) 19:17, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No, they are not. This is about a detailed discussion of a related event. We already have more than a dozen Hurricane Katrina related articles - some topics warrant more detailed discussion, rather than trying to cram everything about all related topics into one article. -- Infrogmation (talk) 02:57, 5 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well, you could at the very least make a category or series template on Katrina if you refuse merging this page. ConcentratedCobalt (talk) 23:26, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand your comment. That it is one of the series of articles related to Hurricane Katrina seems to already be made very clear with info boxes at the top and at the bottom of the article. -- Infrogmation (talk) 14:23, 11 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There was a series? Huh guess I didnt see it, my bad ConcentratedCobalt (talk) 22:03, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]