(Still) nothing to see here

This 17th Street Canal water seepage was a bit of deja vu.

The seepage Moore and his Lakeview neighbors have seen lately is not new. Previously, water coming to the surface near the mended stretch of the 17th Street Canal was identified and analyzed by the corps in 2008, according to Derek Boese, the chief administrative officer for the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East.

Back then, Boese said, the corps analysis found water might be seeping between joints in the sheet piling below the new T-wall or possibly between where the T-wall now connects to the canal's older I-wall sections.

Boese said Friday that levee officials suspect water might be seeping through the sheet piling joints again. But officials do not consider the seepage a threat to the floodwall's integrity because the water is clear and not "dirty," Boese said. Clear water would indicate the seepage is likely not eroding the earthen levee into which the floodwall is built.

"Right now, we do not believe there are any problems," Boese said. "But we do have engineers looking at it again, as well as the Army Corps and the state."

Well, it didn't explode the last time people were worrying about it so they must be on to something. I guess.  Sure hope those floodgates and pumps work the way they're supposed to, though.