Posted on 01/04/2020 7:38:42 PM PST by BeauBo
After four hours of testimony Friday in two separate lawsuits over the building of a private border wall along the banks of the Rio Grande in South Texas... parts of a temporary restraining order were removed...
The hearing was held in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in McAllen. The hearing was suspended after four hours of testimony on Friday and will continue on Thursday...
Fisher said his crews were back in South Texas and ready to begin construction on Saturday. The 70-man team plans to build 3.5 miles of border wall.
And with one section lifted from the TRO that had previously suspended any grading of the riverbank, or cutting back of vegetation, Fisher’s crews are now free to continue grading and cutting of the riverbank...
(Judge) Crane said he was worried that the defendants — Fisher Industries, and the landowner, Neuhaus and Sons — “were being singled out and treated differently.” He questioned why elaborate 2-dimension modeling was required of this project review, and if IBWC requires it of others. (Hint: No)...
Dr. Padinare Unnikrishna, IBWC chief engineer, said this private border wall has been given top priority by the agency, which on Dec. 31 received all required project documents from Fisher Industries.
(Excerpt) Read more at kxan.com ...
Good news.
The McAllen Monitor reports:
“Regardless of the lingering questions over why and when the IBWC requested more data, Fisher Industries ultimately submitted what the agency was looking for — enough so that the IBWC could run the data through a predictive modeling program late last month.
The results remain under review, Unnikrishna said, though he testified that “the model ran to completion.””
Looks promising, that they may crack the code to enable future projects to be built along the riverbank, rather than inland on flood levees.
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