In March 2007 Team Louisiana filed Louisiana's only official report on what happened. They blamed the Corps.

Their reasoning included some of the usual suspects and called for further investigation of the Corps including what is commonly referred to as an "8/29 Commission." They found the Corps was at fault because:

• they relied on an outdated Standard Project Hurricane model
  
• and outdated elevation surveys
• and didn't respond to subcontractor errors
• they built I walls instead of T walls
• and didn't maintain what they built

Paul Kemp, who was part of Team Louisiana as an LSU storm modeler, said he was "struck by the fact that the corps showed no sense of mission on this project, even though it was involved with it for more than 40 years."

Instead, the agency showed "absolute adherence" to obsolete standards -- a 1959 model for the Standard Project Hurricane. And yet the corps seemed willing, Kemp said, to make other wholesale changes midstream, such as abandoning a proposal to install floodgates at the canals in the mid-1980s, which might have stopped the Katrina surge that broke through their walls.

"It looked like no one was really in charge," he said.

by Bob Marshall in the Times Picayune 3/21/7