Itinerary Overview Sunday, November 5 Flight from Chicago O'Hare to New Orleans Steamboat Natchez Cruise - Evening steamboat ride on Mississippi River to see river and study river levees Overnight at Omni Royal Orleans in New Orleans Monday, November 6 Visit U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District - Briefings on system history, what failed and immediate post-Katrina, new system under development Bus Tour: Tour Pump Station #6 17th Street Canal (visit breach, reconstruction, gate closure) London Ave. Canal (visit breach and gate construction) Lower 9th ward (visit breach site, neighborhood, levee reconstruction) Evening drive to Vicksburg, Mississippi Overnight at Hampton Inn, Vicksburg Tuesday, November 7 Visit U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center - general tour of facilities, see physical model of 17th Street Canal, see centrifuge which models levee/soil/water intrusion to study soil failure under high water loads, visit Hazardous Waste Research Center Visit Information Technology Laboratory's Scientific Visualization Center and Joint Computing Facility and see Sapphire supercomputer (rated 20th of the top 500 supercomputers) Afternoon drive back to New Orleans with visit to Old River Control, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Control Structure that regulates the flow in the Atchafalaya and Mississippi rivers, and the Sidney A. Murray Jr. Hydroelectric Station, the largest prefabricated power plant in the world Overnight at the Omni Royal Orleans in New Orleans Wednesday, November 8 Riverboat John James Audubon Waterways Tour of the IHNC through the Industrial Lock to Turning Basin, Paris Road Bridge, and Chef Pass, study where possible closure gates may be built, and look at the marshes that are claimed to provide protection from surge Flight back to Chicago
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