Gaps remain in New Orleans flood controls

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gaps remain in a New Orleans flood control system despite improvements after Hurricane Katrina, a U.S. official said on Thursday as federal agencies prepared for Tropical Storm Gustav to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official Bill Irwin told a telephone news conference that the agency was rushing to install temporary reinforcements along the Inner Harbor Navigation Channel in New Orleans, which was devastated by Katrina in 2005.

(Reporting by Randall Mikkelsen; Editing by Bill Trott)