Corps' experts: MRGO did not aggravate flooding NEW ORLEANS (AP) (wrkf) - Experts called by the Army Corps of Engineers in a lawsuit over hurricane flooding are challenging the notion that a much-despised navigation channel turned into a catastrophic "hurricane highway" that funneled storm surge into populated areas during Hurricane Katrina.

On Thursday, the corps continued to draw a dramatically different picture of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet's effect on Katrina's surge and waves from the one presented by plaintiffs' experts.

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