Hurricane Katrina - 2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis

Question

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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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	7	20.00	100%	71%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	17.78	100%	67%	11%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	21.43	100%	71%	43%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	7	18.57	100%	71%	14%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	16.00	100%	40%	20%

Data


A Brandeis Supreme	Boston University B	10	0	10	20
Yale B	Bowdoin A	10	10	10	30
Brown A	Carabrandeis	10	0	0	10
Harvard A	Brandeises Brew	10	10	10	30
MIT A	Northeastern A	10	0	10	20
Yale A	Tufts B	10	0	10	20
Yale C	Tufts A	10	0	0	10