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NEW ORLEANS - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has spent the last seven years and billions of dollars rebuilding breached levees, constructing new flood gates and setting up new pumps to provide hurricane protection for the city of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Those flood control improvements were put to the test during Hurricane Isaac.
Colonel Ed Gleming, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' New Orleans district, was in the studio to tell us how they performed.