...who argued that the barriers would choke commerce and harm marine life in ecologically sensitive Lake Pontchartrain.
A worker watches the water flow out of a 30 inch pipe that pumps out 27,000 gallons of water per minute in Metairie, La., Tuesday Sept. 6 2005. Water is now being pumped out of the city after officials repaired a broken flood wall. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Another page and a half of info at the link...
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To: Libloather
Envirofacism - killing us all, one disaster at a time...
2 posted on
09/09/2005 9:17:40 AM PDT by
frogjerk
(LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
To: Libloather
Wow, the truth is even beginning to leak out in the L.A. Times. Hey Dims, the end is near!
3 posted on
09/09/2005 9:18:50 AM PDT by
frankjr
To: Libloather
Wonder if this is why the environmental wackouts are staying so silent, and NOT demanding an environmental impact study, before the STATE pumps that 'toxic' water into the lake.
Sometimes dirty, toxic water is not really the issue.
To: Libloather
What kind of loser is an "environmentalist?" It must be the lowest form of employment, even lower than dish washer.
5 posted on
09/09/2005 9:21:36 AM PDT by
GianniV
To: Peach
To: Libloather
'Environmentalist, helping to move society back to the Stone Age one disaster at a time'
7 posted on
09/09/2005 9:22:35 AM PDT by
rollo tomasi
(Anyone who votes for Democrats after Aug. 28, 2005 are just plain ignorant.)
To: Libloather
To: Libloather
10 posted on
09/09/2005 9:25:24 AM PDT by
auboy
To: Libloather
maybe some kind lawyer will file a class action against the Serria KLUB and ask for a billion dollars for the people injured by Katrina. That would make some folks in California reach for their wallets big time.
12 posted on
09/09/2005 9:28:36 AM PDT by
q_an_a
To: Libloather; Grampa Dave; Dog Gone; Carry_Okie; BOBTHENAILER
"The project was stopped in its tracks when an environmental lawsuit won a federal injunction on the grounds that the Army's environmental impact statement was flawed. By the mid-1980s, the Corps of Engineers abandoned the project."I wrest my case!!! EnvironMentalism... The new home for Communism right here in America!!!
They're turning America into the land of "Hell and High Water!" (They're (the pumpers) having to fight to keep the bodies from getting into intakes of the pumps, today!)
13 posted on
09/09/2005 9:29:57 AM PDT by
SierraWasp
(The only thing that can save CA is making eastern CA the 51st state called Sierra Republic!!!)
To: Libloather; SierraWasp; BOBTHENAILER
Hopefully some very good and very hungry trial lawyers will sue these elite watermelons, the governor, da mayor, and the rats in congress for killing and harming innocents.
The poor refugees of N O's could end up owning the governor, da mayor and about half of congress after civil trials.
16 posted on
09/09/2005 9:32:19 AM PDT by
Grampa Dave
(Jamie Gorelick is responsible for more dead Americans(9-11) than those killed in Iraq.)
To: marblehead17
22 posted on
09/09/2005 9:41:34 AM PDT by
marblehead17
(I love it when a plan comes together.)
To: Libloather
Before we spend Billions of dollars rebuilding NOLA in an untenable location, wouldn't it make more sense to consider rebuilding it where it would have a chance against the next cat 5 that blows into town ?
24 posted on
09/09/2005 9:54:05 AM PDT by
oldbrowser
(no one is right because no one is wrong)
To: Libloather
Yeah, but look at all the cool wetlands. Nothing quite like a wild and scenic river...(sarcasm off)
29 posted on
09/09/2005 10:18:21 AM PDT by
.cnI redruM
("No wonder [Bob Denver's] dead. Bush left him on that island." -NRO)
To: Libloather
THANK YOU!!!
I was just in the process of looking for this!
Regards,
31 posted on
09/09/2005 10:26:03 AM PDT by
AMERIKA
To: Libloather
Some say it could have worked. Shoulda, woulda, coulda. Whether this flood control program would have worked or not is sheer speculation. I am a little dismayed that a 30 year old lawsuit is being used to point fingers here. A watertight dome over the entire city would have been useless if somebody failed to close the door. The best laid plans of mice and men can be undone at Nature's whim. Ignore that at your peril.
From where I sit, preparation was lacking, and as such, the primary reason for the chaos and excessive loss of life that ensued. Perhaps nothing could have stopped the flooding.
34 posted on
09/09/2005 10:49:25 AM PDT by
Mr. Quarterpanel
(I am not an actor, but I play one on TV)
To: Libloather
"signed into law by President Johnson,"
I was just wondering, LBJ was president from 1963 to 1969, Nixon from 1969 to 1974, Gerald Ford from 1974 to 1977, Jimmy Carter was president from 1977 to 1981.
What happened between 1969 and 1977, perhaps it was caught up in the court system!?
36 posted on
09/09/2005 11:00:09 AM PDT by
AMERIKA
To: Libloather; Ernest_at_the_Beach
There was an earlier thread about this, the group being
Save Our Wetlands. If you can help me find that earlier thread, there was a link to their site's Google cache of the recently removed page bragging about having stopped certain levee and dam constructions.
To: Libloather
But the project, signed into law by President Johnson, was derailed in 1977 by an environmental lawsuit. Johnson's term was 1963-69.
Liberal Democrat Environmentalist fought his long and hard for 8 yrs it seems.
To: Libloather
Can't believe this was in the LA Times...
64 posted on
09/10/2005 9:12:34 AM PDT by
T. Buzzard Trueblood
("...there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda." - Thomas Kean, chairman, 9/11 Commission)
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