Leaky New Orleans levee alarms experts

AP/yahoo ^ | 5/21/2008 | CAIN BURDEAU

[Slapshot68]

Once again..living below sea level with water on three sides....not good.

[Dilbert San Diego]

There were some reports after Katrina indicating that during the Clinton administration, funding to reinforce the levees was given to Louisiana, but somehow the money didn’t get spent as intended.

Then again, does any of this matter, if natural forces will sooner or later overwhelm the site where New Orleans is.

Didn’t some Republican congressman get raked over the coals for suggesting that New Orleans shouldn’t get redeveloped at the current site? of course since he was Republican, it was racist and a slight to the poor of New Orleans as well to say that.

Mayor Nagin wants a chocolate city in New Orleans again. You figure many of the former residents will never return, and again calls into question whether it should be rebuilt. And if not rebuilt, calls into question whether it’s a good expenditure to rebuild the levees.

[FreeAtlanta]

I saw the title Leaky and I thought it was going to be an article about democrat senator Patrick “Leaky” Leahy.

[HIDEK6]

We sure are going to great lengths to preserve a place where we go to drink and misbehave.

[oyez]

And on silt, at that. I've been told firsthand that the new construction is aready shifting. The heaver the flood walls the quicker they sink. Gravity really sucks.

[Army Air Corps]

So, how long before this is mentioned in an Obama speech?

[FreePaul]

Carl Rove screwed up this time. It wasn’t supposed to leak until the next hurricane hit New Orleans. No wonder he resigned.

[river rat]

Blow all the levies, and build on whatever remains above water..

If ever a city wasn’t meant to be where it is.....it is New Orleans...

The “risks” presented by Global Warming, makes New Orleans even less likely to survive....
We’re literally pouring money into a hole in the Gulf....

[Little Pig]

I’m reminded of the passage from David Brin’s “Earth”: Can you hear the Atchafalaya calling, Mississippi?

[scan59]

The corps is also spending about $100 million by taking more than 2,000 soil borings to find out what is under the ground and determine the best design.

$100,000,000 / 2,000 = $50,000 for each soil boring. Sound like some contractor is making a killing off the project. Taking a soil boring is not much different than drilling a water well, except you don't have to drill as deep for a boring.

[AD from SpringBay]

Sounds like a great use of tax dollars in the chocolate city.

[Romulus]

Then take it someplace else. Some of “we” live there and don’t care for drunks stumbling out of lapdance joints to vomit in our streets.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

The Army Corps of Engineers has spent about $4 billion so far of the $14 billion set aside by Congress...of your tax money to piss away!

Mother Nature says...forget about it! Just move ‘em out and screw the levees!

[OB1kNOb]

our cost is going to increase significantly....

And there goes the other shoe dropping. Anyone surprised? Anyone?

[wordsofearnest]

Just blow the river leevee and things will take care of themselves.

[17th Miss Regt]

Mayor Nagin wants a chocolate city in New Orleans again.

Planned Parenthood agrees. PP did not get them before they were born, so move 'em all back into the city and drown them when the levees breach again. See Margaret Sanger's "Negro Project".

[DesScorp]

"Once again..living below sea level with water on three sides....not good."

You know, it's not even that, really. I'm a big believer in the power of human ingenuity, and big fan of engineering. But when you take those three challenges, and then realize that A) your city will forever sink lower and lower unless you can refresh all the sediments, and that B) you can't refresh those sediments without letting the city flood every year... well, there's challenges, and then there are stupid, sisyphus-caliber quests. New Orleans is the later. We're going to lose that fight no matter how long we fight it and no matter how much we spend on it. It's money down a rat hole the next time a hurricane hits.

. NO may be in the single dumbest place to build a city upon, with 3 bodies of water, sinking soil, and no bedrock.

[avacado]

Whatever the case... we Texans are all full up with Katrina evacuees. Time for some “progressive” west or east coast liberal city to take their share of the liberal plantation that they created.