Levee officials push 1-pump plan ~Sheila Grissett
~Opposition is growing among regional levee commissioners to the Army Corps of Engineers' plan for dual pumping stations on three New Orleans canals, one station to drain neighborhoods and another to operate only when floodgates are closed against storm surge.
Instead, some members of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East are advancing a plan for a single pump station on each of the three canals both to drain neighborhoods and to move water around the floodgates. They say the corps' dual-station plan would increase maintenance costs, require risky synchro- nization of pump operation during major storms and still leave New Orleans with fragile floodwalls along the canals. The flood protection authority will meet at 9:30 a.m. at 6500 Spanish Fort Blvd., New Orleans.
"This problem was created by the corps, and it needs to be solved by the corps," said authority member Tom Jackson, a former president of the American Society of Civil Engineers. "We already paid for it. They broke it, and it's high time for them to fix it the right way."Editilla say Bingo, Tom!
Well said! Go Get'Em! Don't hold back! Whoa!
Aren't we just tough as nails? But, who broke what, Tom? There never were pumps there before the storm. Sooo, who broke what? The Levees? Who built those levees, Tom Jackson? Who worked with and for the Corps and built those "broken" levees? Coincidentally, you worked for the Corps over the decades. Sooo got any names? Mugshots? Aliases? Physical Descriptions?
Why not disagree with these bad engineers back when we paid for you to work for them when "they broke it"?
You know these guys, right?
Who? Broke? Our? Levees? Tom?
But the bigger question leaking out of your levees,
the 64 Gazzillion Pound Gorilla Question is this:
what about the $26,250,000 we also paid your group at ASCE/CORPS not even 3 years ago for the stillborn, broken, irreparable IPET study?
That works out to about $12,000,000/year,
$33,000/day, $1375/hour, $23/minute.
(Jethro Bodine School of Cypher'n)
What the Hell did ASCECORPS
DO WITH ALL THAT MONEY???
Is the imminent release of that batch of Zoo Litter, that Motherfucker Of All Reports (MOAR)... is this why you now attempt to distance yourself from the Corps
as "past President of ASCE"...
--rather than Tax-Paid Corps Consultant?
Was it the Flood, Tom? That is what broke it for me.
What broke it for you? What turned your stomach?
Someone built our bad levees over the years,
Mr. Jackson. Either some consultant engineers like you from the ASCE, or some faux engineers at the CORPS, or some damn fool bureaucrats at ASCECORPS, but we will find out who built our failed levees one day. One fine day.
The loudest dog barking is always the first one
been in'da hen house.
Well I'll Be...slabbed!
Independent probe of pumps sought ~Sheila Grissett
~This time around, President Bush is being asked by U.S. Office of Special Counsel Scott Bloch to have independent engineers do the investigation.
~Note from da'Breach~Dear all,
I am hoping to meet a lot of you this weekend at
Rising Tide III
On Saturday, I will present a sneak preview of levees.org's brand new eye-popping video:
The Katrina Myth; the truth about a thoroughly unnatural disaster.
I hope to see you there!
Sandy Rosenthal~Director levees.org
Corps proposes plan to better protect upper Mississippi
~Next time, the US Army Corps of Engineers might allow farmland to be flooded, on purpose. The Corps has devised a plan to prevent the massive flooding that took out cities and towns, wiped out crops and devastated the upper Mississippi River earlier this year.
The plan would cost $3.7 billion. BWHAHAHAHAHA!
Ragin'CajunHonoré on NOLA: So much to be done~David Reisner
Gulf lease sale brings top dollar ~Jen Degregoria
What Bush Said in New Orleans, and What He Didn't Say
~Harry Shearer
"F-rigging E-vildoer M-ismanaging A-gain"~Hrrmph!
Natomas levee repairs will take a year longer, planners say
~The delay prompted an unusually strong reaction from Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento, who has worked closely with SAFCA and the corps to expedite Natomas levee repairs.
"The Army Corps of Engineers continues to find reasons to cause delays for expediting the permits to protect 70,000 Natomas residents," Matsui said in a statement provided to The Bee. "People are at risk, and it is absolutely unacceptable that an additional year will be needed to get 100-year protection."
Forecasters say TS Fay fails multiple sobriety tests, but still not a likely threat to Louisiana,
Expected to hit Fla. 3rd time
Flags will fly in memory of Katrina's dead
Report: Road Home falls short
~Katy Reckdahl
Another Modernist Battle in New Orleans ~Daniela Morell
~The plight of public schools in New Orleans have been a hot topic lately. This past Monday the School Facilities Master Plan for Orleans Parish was released; it calls for a large-scale rehabilitation of the city’s educational infrastructure. This news falls in the larger context of a shift toward privatized education which, depending on how you look at it, is either a welcome solution to an entrenched problem of low-performance (as portrayed in this week’s New York Times Magazine), or a sinister example of “disaster capitalism” (as per Naomi Klein). In either case, something important gets lost in the conversation; that is the impending threat to New Orleans’s modernist architecture.
A new suit seeks to reopen Tulane women's college
“Organized protest”? Not quite, NOLA.com. ~Kevin Allman
'D.C. Madam' case could hit Vitter in his wallet~Sen. David Vitter, R-Pamp, should be denied permission to use campaign money to pay more than $160,000 in legal fees related to his involvement with a Washington escort service, according to an advisory opinion released Wednesday by lawyers for the Federal Election Commission.
Vitter, R-Pamp, should take care of his own affairs like a big boy and pay his own way for using prostitutes on the voters' time and dime. He should, self- immolatedly, do time at OPP for committing his crimes in New Orleans, within blocks of an elementary school! Gasp! We must protect our children from repugnican prevert evangical clown'downers! Photo-New Orleans Levee
Hot Air, Inc.~James Gill
~Ari Fleischer, President Bush's original mouthpiece, has a great racket going these days.
Rum Review: Old New Orleans Crystal Rum ~RumDood
Long Weekend in New Orleans
~Chowhound NOLA
Democrats or Republi- replicans: Whose Music Is Better?~Eliot Van Buskirk
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