[Libloather]

...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...

[TexasCajun]

FACT: SOWL SAVED LAKE PONCHARTRAIN -

In 1977, SOWL obtained an injunction from U.S. District Judge Charles Schwartz enjoining the Corps of Engineers from building a billion dollar dam at the Chef Mentaur Rigolets Fort Pike Area, where the Gulf of Mexico enters into Lake Ponchartrain. Had SOWL not obtained this injunction, Lake Ponchartrain would be a stagnant body of water and over 28,000 acres of wetlands in New Orleans East would have been developed into the Orlanda Subdivision.

So this project was signed into law, funded and a single activist judge now has responsibility for the Big New Orleans Flood of 2005!

Their webmaster moron can't even spell Pontchartrain!

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

"If we had built the barriers, New Orleans would not be flooded," said Joseph Towers, the retired chief counsel for the Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans district.

Bump.

[rang1995]

another BTTT--needs to be re-read

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Bump.

Because people gots to know.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Bump.