Coastal restoration: Lots of options, little progress

The Daily Advertiser - Lafayette, LA ^ | 02/05/06 | Claire Taylor

[bayourant]

http://theadvertiser.gns.gannettonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/DG/20060205/SPECIALSECTION0603/602280303/0/LAFUTURE Protecting South Louisiana from future hurricanes will require adding new levees, restoring wetlands and rebuilding barrier islands and reefs, scientists and state officials say.

But those remedies will take time, money and political will.

"The kind of mobilization or general consensus that is being drummed up for the levees in New Orleans is what we need for coastal restoration, because people need to make a mental connection with coastal restoration and hurricane protection," said Rusty Gaude, a Louisiana fisheries Sea Grant agent for Orleans, St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes.

[bayourant]

The whole article is pretty good as well as the links on the side to give a realistic viewpoint of the problems

[bigeasy_70118]

We ain't sending you any money!!!!! </sarcasm>

[CajunConservative]

In December, U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany, R-Lafayette, introduced legislation that would authorize the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to study building a 12-foot levee along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway to provide hurricane protection along the coast. The study would cost $500,000.

"We don't need a study. We need a levee," said Hubert Faulk, president of the Vermilion Parish Police Jury. "I can tell them how to dig dirt and build a levee."

I like the way he thinks.

[Milligan]

Why didn't Bush fund Coast 2050?