Raymond Seed Quotations

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.

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,

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

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

These levees should have been expected to perform adequately at these levels if they had been designed and constructed properly.

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.

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.

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

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