~Nikki Buskey ~Absent from the bill, however, is money for Terrebonne’s Morganza-to-the-Gulf project, languishing more than a decade as a result of studies and bureaucratic delays. Tired of waiting for federal money for the system of levees, local officials are building 10-foot levees along the alignment already approved by the Army Corps of Engineers.
The federal version of Morganza is undergoing a re-study by the corps, and no federal money was dedicated to the project. That’s because that study is already paid for this year and all other work on the federal project has been stalled, said Landrieu spokesman Aaron Saunders.
The Corps in retreat?
~Monroe News Star
~Having the Corps of Engineers work on your levees is no guarantee they'll hold. Just ask around New Orleans. But having the Corps, with its federal authority and budget strength, desert your levees altogether might be worse. That's what the Tensas Basin Levee District is fighting now. The outcome of their efforts may have a dramatic effect on our region.
For eight decades, the Corps has been responsible for making major levee repairs in the Tensas District, which includes the Ouachita River. The federal government has funded infrastructure needs along the river and in the system. Now, the Corps says it lacks the authority for major repairs along the Ouachita that it has used for decades, back in the days following the Great Flood of 1927.Local officials believe that the Corps, stung by criticism of its levee work around New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, is also acutely aware of its liability for levees that fail. But the levees the Corps developed here have problems — big problems, Tensas District executive director John Stringer says — and this region lacks the resources to correct them.
Filling canals to restore Baratara marshes~Paul Rioux
Leslie Jacobs weighing N.O. mayoral race as Roy Glapion bows out~Frank Donze
Latino role in post-Katrina Nola examined at symposium
~Lolis E Elie
Idaho Gets Four Times More Stimulus Money in Contracts Than Louisiana~Aaron Glantz
How Appealing~Fifth Circuit reinstates lawsuit alleging that the operation of energy, fossil fuels, and chemical industries in the United States caused the emission of greenhouse gasses that contributed to global warming, resulting in the harms caused by Hurricane Katrina
Taking Conceptual Art on the Road~Benjamin GenocchioBrewmaster Tom Conklin wins silver at Great American Beer Festival~Todd A. Price
Men Of Class Second Line Parade Sunday, October 18
~Red Cotton
Sgt Dunbar: Everything Is, Pt III
~Aquarium Drunkard
The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame's New Orleans Regional Inductions ~HOB
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