KATRINA UPDATE Levee Fixes May Be Falling Short t wo teams of independent experts Ivor van Heerden, a Louisiana State Uni- monitoring the $1.6 billion versity engineering professor and leader of reconstruction project of New the state-appointed team, has charged that Engineering Grads Top Orleans' toppled flood walls say the government is trying to create a sense large sections of the rebuilt levee system of security that doesn't exist. What we have New Salary Survey will be substantially weaker than before the today is a compromised levee system that C hurricane hit. failed during a fast-moving Category 3 hur- Engineers from a National Science ricane. Absolutely nowhere are the levees lass of 2006 engineers, take heart. Foundation