Posted on 09/12/2005 6:48:20 PM PDT by NickatNite2003
Did yo hear the interview with the engineer whp has been working on the Levees for a long time, discussing why the Levees busted, what it would cost to fix them and how..
And hear him say, that no amount of repair or "u[grading of the present New Orlkeans Levee system, will ever be able to protect the city from a force 5 or 4 class Hurricane? Basically said that the whole levee system would have to be redesigned and built anew to be able to properly protect the city from a future reoccurance, and his optimistic estimate with all the money in the world.. it would take at least 10 years?
Well, in my opinion, considering we are looking
at another 28 odd years of strong Hurricane
seasons...i think it's a prett7y good chance...
or a pretty bad one depending on your perspective.
When you look at the globe, and you see the path that hurricanes take, has it never crossed your mind that
the hurricanes and our southern coastlineseem to fit
each other hand in glove..like the lil ol itty bitty
Hurricanes over the millenia, had *cut* the Gulf
of Mexico, into being? So yes...i do get a feeling
that New Orleans will get hit againm and in the next
28 years..maybe within the next 28 days.
Did I make a funny
Not in my Backyard !!!!!
(Common Liberal Elite Mantra)
:)
Now you have gone and done it! Giving the government new plans and projects.
I suggest instead, that we buy the Great Wall of China, trnsport it here, to the Port of New Orleans of course, and re-erect it on top of the levees from beginning of the river to the end, or until we run out of wall. China might be in a mood to deal if we throw in a secret or two.
If you look at them you can see why they broke. A bunch of oversized freeway barriers sitting on top of a mud bank. The minute water goes over the top ... mud gets washed away and voila ... no levee.
REAL levees on critical points along rivers must be covered completely with concrete to keep them in place. What NO needs is a concrete wall akin to a damn around the whole thing.
Dredge and fill. Done all over the world now.
They are building on flood plains 2 miles from where I live.
Why a barge didn't break the levee
I don't see how this would apply to a concrete retaining wall inside the canals. I must note that I don't know for certain (and have been unable to determine) if the failure that the barge was involved with was an earthen levee or one of the concrete retaining walls. If it was one of the concrete barriers I could easily imagine that a barge could destroy it just as easily as eroding its base could.
I know one thing for sure..if i lived in
one of the lower (poor) districts, and i got
*out* of New Orleans...I'd *never* go back...
certainly not to live there.
It's a death trap waiting to happen again.
Some type of substantive reinforced structure does seem to be in order here. It seems as though mud just doesn't hold up.
It would be interesting to inform the public as to what the Army Core of Engineers has recommended over the years and WHY it wasn't done.
It's also interesting that the point of the levee break had recently been reinforced.
Mark Scott fan were we?
Profound indeed.
When one of the first articles came out titled "NO has Sunk", my simple reply was "Raise It".
I also think they should forget about keeping the water out and instead concentrate on diverting it.
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