Corps' operation of MR-GO doomed homes in St. Bernard, Lower 9th Ward, judge rules

Nola.com ^ | 11.19.09 | Mark Schleifstein

[trumandogz]

In a groundbreaking decision, a federal judge ruled late Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' mismanagement of maintenance at the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet was directly responsible for flood damage in St. Bernard Parish and the Lower 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina.

[Dinah Lord]

Here we go bttt.

[Senator Goldwater]

Ray Nagin, Kathleen Blanco and the hordes of Democrats who absconded federal money to maintain the levee system in New Orleans are DIRECTLY responsible for the failure to evacuate, the flood aftermath and subsequent failure to deliver relief.

[trumandogz]

Ping

[Westlander]

I’ll chip in and make a donation for the cause right after I address that reparation money I owe,

[trumandogz]

The levees and MR-GO were designed, built and maintained by the US Army Corps of Engineers and they accepted responsibility for the failure of the levees and now they must accept responsibility for MR-GO.

[trumandogz]

"The failure of the Corps to recognize the destruction that the MRGO had caused and the potential hazard that it created is clearly negligent on the part of the Corps," said U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. in his ruling. "Furthermore, the Corps not only knew, but admitted by 1988, that the MRGO threatened human life ... and yet it did not act in time to prevent the catastrophic disaster that ensued with the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina."

Looks like you are on the hook for the cash as the Corps has been found to be responsible.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

The levees and MR-GO were designed, built and maintained by the US Army Corps of Engineers and they accepted responsibility for the failure of the levees and now they must accept responsibility for MR-GO.
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Spot On!,,,

The COE were told Not to dig that channel,,,

It was supported by Northern shipping companies,,,

Hopefully this will force the insurance companies to pay off

OR GO TO JAIL!!!...

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the ping Trumandogz.

Looks like a confirmation of your earlier stated thoughts.

[trumandogz]

Thanks.

And to your earlier post which I never got around to responding.

New Orleans and the surrounding parishes are more corrupt and dysfunctional than anyone on the outside can imagine and more corrupt and dysfunctional than anyone on the inside can see.

However, that has little to do with the levees failing or the MR-GO’s contribution to the area's flooding.

Interestingly, MR-GO is a prime example of a Federal public works project being forced on an area despite the state and local officials as well as a public objected to the Federal Government's dictate.

And for some reason, in this one case, many conservatives seem to want to side with the Feds over the people of Louisiana who for the last 45 years not only objected the MR-GO but predicted exactly what would occur if a hurricane were to hit the area.

[abb]

And speaking of that corruption.

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-13/12586122634800.xml&coll=1
Jeff official retires amid probe
Company records subpoenaed

[trumandogz]

No surprise at all.

Those who live in Jefferson, St. Bernard, St. Tammany, Plaquemines, St. Charles parishes love to point to Orleans and laugh about the corruption, but the truth is they are all corrupt, so corrupt that they are more like Latin America than they are any place in the USA.

[abb]

Except North Carolina. They have got us Louisianans beat a mile.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks Trumandogz. The army Corp of Engineers used to be well thought of. Looks like that has changed, at least in New Orleans.

[Einherjar]

but..........but.........you mean it`s not Bush`s fault ?

[David Isaac]

The COE certainly deserves some blame for their actions, but there were others to blame as well. Two articles from 2005 (sorry, no links) would seem to point a finger at environmentalists putting the kibosh to a COE plan to build floodgates at two strategic locations to prevent the flooding that occurred with Katrina. A Federal Court ordered another prohibitively expensive and time-consuming environmnetal impact study, when the project was in start-up.

New Orleans: A Green Genocide By: Michael Tremoglie
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, September 08, 2005

Activists Blocked New Orleans Levee Plan - by James M. Taylor - Environment & Climate News
(Written By: James M. Taylor
Published In: Environment & Climate News > November 2005
Publication date: 11/01/2005
Publisher: The Heartland Institute)

As a taxpayer, I am going to have a very difficult time paying for anything in that cluster-#^(%, known as New Orleans.

[trumandogz]

Yes, but those environmentalists are not the Federal Government and it is the Federal Government that forced MR-GO on to the people of South Louisiana.

The US Army Corps of Engineers’ MR-GO not only caused the erosion of wetlands, but also acted as a funnel to bring storm surge into the Lower 9th Ward and St, Bernard Parish.

Thus is was the Feds, with the poorly designed and constructed levees and MR-GO project, that caused the destruction of New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish and it is the American Taxpayer that holds the liability for the disaster.