Memories of this betrayal resonated through generations. In fact some reports say that residents of the lower ninth ward remarked, on the eve of Katrina, that the government would likely blow the levee which holds the industrial canal from filling the lower ninth ward with water in order to again save New Orleans. The canal also connects the eastern segment of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) with the Mississippi River. The Industrial Canal lock expansion was originally proposed by the Port of New Orleans in 1954, part of a plan to allow ships with 36-foot … David Grunfeld / The Times-Picayune archive A barge that was moored in the Industrial Canal sits in a Lower Ninth Ward neighbood still covered in water after Hurricane Katrina on September 10, 2005. Hurricane Katrina, tropical cyclone that struck the southeastern United States in August 2005, breaching levees and causing widespread damage and deaths. 1. Ultimately, the storm caused more than $160 billion in damage, and it reduced the population of New Orleans by 29 percent between the fall of 2005 and 2011. By 7:30 a.m., the levees had failed in two locations. The IHNC Lock is located in the Industrial Canal which runs through a highly urbanized area within the New Orleans city limits. The failure mechanism for the Industrial Canal (east side south and west side) was overtopping of levees and floodwalls by the storm surge. It joins Lake Pontchartrain to the north with the Mississippi River to the south. Aerial panorama of repair work on the Industrial Canal levee in New Orleans after Katrina. Relocation (Brinkley, 2007). In 1985 Army Corps of Engineers research branch conducted tests on sheet pile flood walls with the same design that they were using for New Orleans’ hurricane protection system. Purpose The Industrial Canal was overwhelmed when a storm surge, funneled in by the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, overflowed and breached levees and floodwalls in several locations, flooding not only the Lower Ninth Ward, but also Eastern New Orleans and portions of the Upper Ninth Ward west of the Canal. Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually begins an hour and a half earlier. The Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Lock—commonly known as Industrial Canal Lock or simply Industrial Lock —is a navigation lock in New Orleans.It connects the Lower Mississippi River to the Industrial Canal and other sea-level waterways. The storm surge from Katrina caused the levees along the Industrial Canal to be overtopped by as much as 5 feet. The other contributing factor in the case of the Industrial Canal levee floodwall failures was a mechanism of I-wall failure discovered after these floodwalls were built. 360 degree aerial photograph of the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (aka Industrial Canal) from a helicopter 400 feet over the Galvez St. Wharf. The primary mechanism of failure for levees protecting eastern New Orleans was the existence of sand in … Because it is shorter and narrower than most modern locks on the Mississippi River System, the 1920s vintage lock has become a … Before Hurricane Katrina breached a levee on the New Orleans Industrial Canal, the Army Corps of Engineers had already launched a $748 million construction project at that very location. Pictured: A view of Jourdan Avenue from the Industrial Canal at sunrise, Aug. 2, 2015, in the Lower 9th Ward.