Comments on: Further Divergence http://b.rox.com/blog/2012/09/08/further-divergence/ Pronounce the dot. Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:32:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=479 By: Jenel http://b.rox.com/blog/2012/09/08/further-divergence/#comment-540767 Jenel Sun, 09 Sep 2012 04:55:20 +0000 http://b.rox.com/?p=10417#comment-540767 If you are looking for real root cause then it is wetlands destruction (much of which is caused by Corps policies that “starve” the Mississippi of sediment… so the the Corps can still be “blamed” if anyone needs that. It wasn’t the levee protection system that caused the flooding. If anything the “great wall” should have kept water OUT of LaPlace.
And the NorthShore flooding was from rain and natural drainage of the rainfall through the basin.

Rebuilding and protecting the wetlands protects “everyone”.
Northshore & Mississippi river flooding doesn’t take a hurricane… just lots of rain.

Braithwaite… Thank Nungesser. He spent all the money on the West side of Plaquemines Parish and very little on the East side. And only started building the levees on the east side in June. June? really?? To build the levee they have to take the existing protection down to the hard bottom which effectively lowered the protection they had.

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