Tropical Storm Lee Won’t Test Levees: Officials | Bloomberg

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers close the final bays of the Bonnet Carre
Spillway just above New Orleans in Norco, La., on June 20, 2011.
Photographer: Gerald Herbert/AP

No storm surge is expected, so the levees fortified after devastation by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 won’t be tested, said Robert Turner, regional director of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority.
The storm, about 210 miles (340 kilometers) southwest of the Mississippi River mouth, may reach Louisiana over the weekend. Winds of almost 60 miles per hour were reported on oil rigs north and east of the storm center at elevations of a few hundred feet, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said in an advisory.

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