In 2004 the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and Holland's Rijkswaterstaat (transport, public works and water management ministry) signed an agreement for information exchange, plus project research, development and evaluationrnHurricane Katrina howled into the Gulf a year later and did $80Bn-worth of damage, much of it stemming from the heavy depletion and erosion of wetlands, sand dunes and especially barrier islands.
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