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Answer the following about engineering projects on the lower Mississippi River, for 10 points each.
[10e] The massive series of levees and flood walls built by the Army Corps of Engineers to protect New Orleans suffered a systemic failure during this 2005 event, which saw widespread criticism over FEMA’s incompetent response.
ANSWER: Hurricane Katrina
[10h] An ongoing threat is that the lower Mississippi will change course, bypassing New Orleans to instead flow into this distributary river whose discharge is controlled by the Old River Control Structure.
ANSWER: Atchafalaya River
[10m] The longest continuous span over water in the world is the 24-mile-long causeway over this massive saltwater lake north of New Orleans, whose northern shore contains the city of Mandeville.
ANSWER: Lake Pontchartrain
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Berkeley CBerkeley A100010
Stanford ABerkeley B1001020
Stanford LStanford M1001020