What's In Your Levee???
Boh Brothers admits 'filling' with Construction Garbage, blames Corps for accepting it
~Figuring out just exactly how all the debris got into that 2,000-foot (7 football fields long) stretch of levee more than five (less than 10) years ago remains something of a mystery.
~~"We reviewed all our documentation from the project," President Robert Boh said. "There is no indication from either our records or from our employees (then) working on that project that there was a debris issue."
~~~"Using material from the project at Claiborne was the least expensive way to solve the problem ... and as Robert Boh said, there is nothing in our records to indicate that there was a debris issue," said Boh Brothers spokeswoman Ann Barks. (Ruff!)
"All of this levee work was done in accordance with the requirements of our contract; and the Corps directed, supervised and approved the work," she said.
~Editilla B'OH!'tellas~ D'oh! B'oh! Soooo, if the Corps of Engineers accepts responsibility for this Fuck Up, since they have a no-limit Get Out Of Jail Free Card, there will be no one held Liable or Guilty for Screwing the Taxpayers on a $20,000,000 contract for New Levee Work within the past 10 years.
For the Corps to say OPPSEE, we messed up so we'll keep looking into it means that nothing will be done.
B'oh! and Corps representatives said they will continue reviewing their files and talking with the employees involved in the project for more information.
That is why B'oh! Brothers is playing the Stupid card. They are not immune from Product Liability. But the Corps? Hell Yeah!
"The (corps) inspector's job was to make sure that the contractor was following his quality-control plan," Corps (latest) section chief Brett Herr said.
"Their quality assurance and our quality control efforts weren't successful. We accepted the job, so there's no recourse against the contractor."
Sooo there is no recourse period, eh? Soooo...what?
Thus, the Corps will "keep looking into it", denying the public access to their Records without a Freedom of Information Request (FOIR) from over half of the US Congress, the President and God. It will be like pulling Shark's Teeth bare handed. Remember the DoD IG's batting average on the Corps Investigating Itself: 0 for us / 500 for da'Corps on the Inoperable Pumps Scandal, 0 for us / 1000 for the Corps' Computer Fraud. Oh, and then there is the Stillborn IPET Study: 0 for us / 9000 pages, years late and $23,000,000 for the Corps...
So the next Question is: Who Built our Failed Levees in Orleans parish, and from where did they get the soil?
Actually, the Question is: how dare they consider Option 1 to keep the Bad Failed Flood Walls in place on our outfall canals over Option 2 which would rid us of this obvious Threat to our safety?
Or the biggest question should be:
Why Are We Still Dealing With These Punks?

Once Upon A Time...
Mister Potato Head had a Baby
and they named it MR-GO!
~Houston Chronicle~This article was written by the authors of Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow.
Silly title was curtsy yer'oh'so humble Editilla.

Federal court ruling could affect the entire coast~The case should be monitored closely along the Gulf Coast and anywhere else in the country where people's homes could be flooded through a Corps of Engineers navigation channel.

Federal agency reclassifying more property at risk for flooding~Nancy Garcia

Why were we not warned about the perfect flood?~Eoin English
~IT STRUCK without warning, leaving a trail of destruction and human misery in its wake. The river Lee burst its banks in the early hours of last Friday morning after millions of tonnes of water were released from the Inniscarra Dam, eight miles west of Cork city. The torrent was of the order of three million tonnes – three times the volume of water flowing through the Mississippi on a daily basis.

The Cost of Homeowners Insurance in CT’s Hurricane Alley
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Aquaculture Canal New Orleans
~Landscape + Urbanism Blog

~by Fadi Masoud, a Landscape Architecture student at the University of Toronto, envisions the New Orleans’ Industrial Canal as productive infrastructure for flood control and aquaculture. The jury noted that the winning submissions were ideal as a pair, representing the range of innovative ideas relevant to WPA 2.0.
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