~Thank you Times Picayune!
Seepage - and what the Corps is holding back~Humid City
Third party to sort out levee seepage from that of a baby's diaper~"The corps has defended its work, but also has been digging a trench to find the precise source of wet spots inside the levees."
Editilla saw no evidence of this alleged work what so ever. As sited in yesterday's Ladder Report of my Monday trip to the 17th Street Leak, I did see a bulldozer over by Robert E Lee blvd and lots of deep still wet mud, but no Corps work at all at the four Leak Spots--especially trenches or any of that boohoo'rah. None. They lie like dogs. I was there Monday, the 26th. Perhaps they had already covered over a previous Leakage Spot but what I saw then was the same spot ReEmerging? What? Folks need to go and see with their own lyin'eyes. Jus'sayin...
~"I have agreed with southeastern (Louisiana) levee authorities as well as the state to go ahead and do an independent peer review, to put to rest what the issues are with the seepage," said Karen Durham-Aguilera, director of the corps task force responsible for restoring levees in the five-parish area.
Who will conduct the review has yet to be determined, she said. Editilla belches: No Duh?
And who is behind Doh! #3?
Hell, the Corps of Engineers can't even determine which different "Spokes'people" they will slide before us on any given day like so many stage doors.
Who is behiiiiind dooor Number 3 today?
No, Who is on First.
Buuut...What is behind door Number 3?
No...
Who is on first.
What is on Second.
I Don't Know is on Turd.
But why is no one in the Corps actually seeming to take the responsibility of signing their engineering names off on paper for these "repairs" at the 17th Street Canal Leak?
That shows the most glaring difference between the Corps of Engineers and Real Engineers like their arch nemesis, Robert Bea--who they continually disparage to site as a paid litigant consultant (see: Tim Ruppert)(see: Mxz. Aguilera's own statement), as if the satisfaction for the victims of their bad engineering somehow weakens his engineering analysis.
Robert Bea signs his name at the bottom of his work and can back it up in court, unlike the Corps of Faux Engineers. Notice Mxz. Durham-Aguilera's misdirection to: The "Southeast Louisiana Levee Authorities" and the State of Louisiana, as if that gives the impression that others are involved in the decision processes of rebuilding and repair of these Failing Levees. NO, Gentle'Rillas! It is the Corps of Engineers wit'whom anyone must agree--as they have so mandated over and over regarding these levees. NO ONE ELSE can touch these levees but the Exquixotic Corps--or any other levee, river, tributary, bayou, ditch, latrine or lake front all across the United States. The Exquixotic Corps of Engineers is everywhere you want to be. According to the Corps--They are the Southwest Louisiana Levee Authority. They are the Total Authority on American Waterways.
Why can't the Corps back up its own Goddamned Work? Real Engineers sign their work and the Corps of Engineers offers referals to people who don't even exist the next day. Yesterday is was Tech Support Director Jolissaint and his coining the term: "This Little Wet Spot" for the AP. And today? Mr. Bill say Nooooooo...
MRGO Blow Smoke up Sluggo's ass please?
A couple of months ago when we caught them out as having stuffed newspaper in the repair section joint seals we got Kevin Wagner who told us he was project director for levees in Orleans parish. After nailing him as not even belonging to the ASCE since 1995 and even then having only "Affiliate Membership" the paper of the original quote changed his status on the website article to: "Corps Spokesman". Mr GO Figure.
Which brings us Mike Park, Hurricane Protection System Program Manager for the Corps weighing in on these Levee Leaks. He was (a couple of weeks ago) or is supposed now to be the one in charge of building that little berm thingy they intend to put across the MRGO outlet to stop navigation but not storm surge, their idea of "Closing MRGO".
We will deal with that later but right now I guess he can take off for lunch, walk across the hall, to come in on the Press Media the 17th Street Leak and jump in there with today's Corpsiclar: "Karen Durham-Aguilera, director of the Corps task force responsible for restoring levees in the five-parish area".
And above all this I assume we have their fearless leader: Brigadier General Michael J. Walsh, commander of the corps' Mississippi Valley Division--who has warned the residents of the Ninth Ward to "get ready to be a little wetter"--and they know why?
Huh? Say What? You tawkin'ta me?
Is that a Threat or a Promise, General Walsh?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
Stop it with the damned Clueless "SPOKESPERSONS"!
STOP IT WITH THE PUBLIC RELATIONS CHEERLEADING!
You do not talk down to the American Citizenry. Shame on You!
No Soup fo'da Corps!
Editilla hates to belabor an issue, with Ms. Durham-Aguilera's belaboring Robert Bea's position as a litigant consultant, in that she is noted on the Corps site as being a registered engineer in the State of Louisiana, however her name draws a Zero at the State's own site. We trust that she gained experience about these levee structures in New Orleans from Oregon or from wherever they transfered her. Perhaps she read the Corps IPET 25 Million Dollar peer review. Hell, maybe she wrote it. Perchance she has just let her lisence lapse. It happens all the time. Maybe I am going blind.
Who knows? Jus'sayin...
Ms. Durham Aguilera could easily conduct her own review of her Corps' current "issues with the seepage" as did yer oh'so humble Editilla: to wit, go and stick her damned hands into the flowing water at the four Leaks in front of the Corps DisRepaired Canal Street Levee "I Wall". Don't real engineers get their own hands dirty any more? Her own Corps of Engineers built that "I Wall" so she she has no fear there, eh? It is safe...right? I mean, Mxz. Aguilera, are you going to bet Your life on this flowing water? I could smell the canal water from the other side of the "I Wall" 50 yards away--3 Months after those leaks were reported to the Corps and as well reported in the Times Picayune.
Same Leak 3 Months Later? Different Leak?
Whaaat, Me Worry?
Mxz. Aguilera should stop the bullshiting about how they will, what, appoint/convene/contract another future peer study of, what? The four Leak Spots that I saw and reported flowing water Monday? What? Hire the ASCE for another cool 25 Mil AGAIN?
The Corps is lying. Out and Out, Shell Game, Slight of Hand, P.T. Barnham Carney Press Conference LYING! Just because they say something does not mean they are saying anything at all. What are they saying? Listen to what they are saying. What are you saying, Mxz. Aguilera? Who the hell are you?
To simply just say something, anything and think the public will go away is PR 101. That shit might work on Shell'Shocked Iraqis and Wise Blooded Christ Mongerers or drug'adled middle'class Americans too busy working their asses off, to get gas to get to work even harder, too distracted to notice the slow process of soil errosion ---but that dog just won't hunt here in this swamp.
We know. I was there. They have not done a thing to these "little wet spots". They are flat lying. What gall...as if these arrogant bastards (and bastardettes) think we will not actually go out and look at what they say they have done, as now with the 17th Street Canal Levee Failure. I did. Sandy Rosenthal did.
Go and see for yourselves, Gentle Nola'rillas--but I suspect y'all had better make it fast before the Corps covers up their mistake again with fresh dirt!
Directions to the 17th Street Leak.
Who ya'gonna call?
"Bringing in what we hope is a truly independent review to look at the leaks at the 17th Street Canal — that is commendable," said Sandy Rosenthal, founder of Levees.org, a group that has lobbied for overhauling the Corps. Aside from that, Rosenthal said in an interview, "I'm not aware of anything that was presented that would give the citizens of this area any reason to feel safe."
And a Big Editilla Schilla Shout Out
to the Food Blog: Aroma Cucina
~Who have jumped on this and spread it around to their foodies up in...New York? And well beyond...
Yeah, what I call Fireony!
If you gonna love Food you gotta love New Orleans--and this blog does love our city through special hat tips and all anyway. They pay attention. I listen to those who listen to me. Like most normally sane human beings confronted with utter bullshit, they jumped to The Line to stomp it out into the open, and through their Stitch'hiking this story, other blogs around the country, outside of New Orleans' blog'a'reamery, have jumped on the Ladder and grabbed ahold of it.
The Nola Blog'O'sphere is already rocking loaded dice with tons of other focuses to take care of, of other snakes to doctor--and doing rather well at it too Sinn Féin, effecting change for the city's future, her music, her education, making the place livable again thank you vury'mush. Like all Americans they are busy.
I follow all of this through my Secret da'Coda Ring.
But it is when I see how quickly the rest of the country will tend now to care for New Orleans in a crisis, it just breaks my heart with such heartening,
or...leavening if you will!
Hell, Y'all know by now yer Editilla will...
I used to be a nice guy. Fun at parties. Laugh'a'minute. My favorite thing to search for the Ladder was articles on groups around the country who come to work Recovery in New Orleans, or were into her food, or new books, or expecially da'music and pretty pictures, videos. It keeps me out of trouble. But Nooooo! The Corps of Engineers continues to attempt to remake our world into a place about as fun as a pile of poinionous snakes and fleas.
I do not enjoy the taste they leave in my mouth or the way they are making me feel unsafe by their slight of hand faux re-engineering to cover up their guilt for the negligent homicides they began on August 29th, 2005.
I know this has taken over my posts and that makes Editilla very sad.
Thank you Aroma Cucina!
To quote Randy Newman: "You give me Reason to Live!"
Corps says seepage at 17th Street Canal is normal
"And we're attributing that to seepage that's passing through the joints between the sheet pile sections," Mike Park, Hurricane Protection System Program Manager for the Corps, said. [This "program manager" also does not show up on the State of Louisiana's Engineering certification Site above]
Officials: New Orleans area hurricane protection best ever~But they say they don't have parish-by-parish risk estimates, let alone estimates by neighborhood.
Brigadier General Michael J. Walsh, commander of the corps' Mississippi Valley Division, did say that leaders in areas such as the 9th Ward of New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish know that their areas will be -- in his words -- "a little bit wetter than others," and why this is.
~Excuse me General Walsh, but why do you say the 9th ward will be a little bit wetter than other areas? Enquirin'Rillas want to know!
One of these bitches is not like the other.One of these bitches is kinda the same!
One of these bitches is not like the other.
When the bell rings...
Can'Yaz tell me their Name?
Howd'yaz all like this cotton'mouth, dry-run photo-op: Commander in Theif, Raptor'fine First Lady, VP Jungle Book Jindal, and da'Genral watching the presidente's ass, backing it all up so to speak? Fly Opening.
How McCain's Katrina Record Undermines Criticism Of Obama On Iraq~Sam Stein
Recovery: The Shame of Disaster Response~CJO's Avenger212
Legislature free to correct its own (as if)~James Gill
Perdigao v Adams & Reese: Robert Wooley You Magnificent Bastard, Welcome to Slabbed
RTA rolls out first new bus since Katrina losses
Laura Bush visits New Orleans,
~Drops Profundities about Historical Dialogue, Gushes Over Christian Privatized Disaster Responses
Telecom Junkies On Disaster Planning & Recovery~Michael Graves
Snake Doctors ~RuralityEditilla gotta brand new thang! Ya'jus never know where you will find a diamond stuck in yer toe! Such as this blog, like discovering a steaming pan of cobbler on an empty park bench alone on Christmas Day. Thus da'nature of Rurality!
This is so what I needed right when I needed it!
Music Of My Mind: A Living Soundtrack
~noah bonaparte pais
TONIGHT: New Orleans is Forever GOOD!
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