http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/levees/ en-us Mon, 1 Sep 2008 21:26:43 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072607/posts http://www.maroonspoon.com/wx/gustav.html Live coverage...levee is failing 350 feet of wall falling apart as we speak... wgno http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072607/posts#comment Mon, 1 Sep 2008 21:26:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035625/posts What residents were hoping they could avoid has happened in St. Charles. As feared, part of the Elm Point Levee has burst and water is rushing through right now at a rapid pace. Authorities say that the levee burst in two spots around 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday. One of those holes is reportedly the size of a football field. Several homes and businesses in the area are now flooded. Officials say that residents in that area voluntarily evacuated before the breach.    Google map link KMOV.com, St Louis http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035625/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:06:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034471/posts (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama took his campaign to Miami, Florida, on Saturday with a message to the nation's mayors: I'll be your ally in Washington, Sen. John McCain will not. (snip) "Both Sen. McCain and I have traveled recently to the areas that have been devastated by floods. And I know that Sen. McCain felt as strongly as I did feeling enormous sympathy for the victims of the recent flooding. ... And I'm sure they appreciated the sentiment, but they probably would have appreciated it even more if Sen. McCain hadn't opposed legislation to fund levees and flood control... cnn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034471/posts#comment Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:40:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034077/posts Des Moines, IA (AHN) - The flooding of the Mississippi River has brought out to the open the fact that half of 31 levees between southern Iowa and St. Louis are dated and could no longer withstand the river's rampaging waters.According to the Army Corps of Engineers the majority of the levees were build three decades ago, while some were as old as 6 decades. With a National Weather Service forecast of more rains and higher waters on the river, the army engineers fear at least 18 of the levees would give way and this would result to worst flooding... All Headline News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034077/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:40:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029002/posts LAKE DELTON, Wis. - Storms overnight added to swollen rivers and caused new levee breaks that swamped Illinois farms and homes — part of a week of severe weather that's claimed 15 lives and is expected to continue in the nation's heartland, impacting food prices across the country. Three levee breaks along the Embarras and Wabash rivers in Illinois were causing widespread flash flooding of nearby areas — including Lawrenceville, a town of 5,000, and several smaller communities. About 200 homes are in the immediately affected area, with water up to the roofs of some of them. Between 50 to... MSNBC.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029002/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:53:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019445/posts Despite more than $22 million in repairs, a levee that broke with catastrophic effect during Hurricane Katrina is leaking again because of the mushy ground on which New Orleans was built, raising serious questions about the reliability of the city's flood defenses. Outside engineering experts who have studied the project told The Associated Press that the type of seepage spotted at the 17th Street Canal in the Lakeview neighborhood afflicts other New Orleans levees, too, and could cause some of them to collapse during a storm. The Army Corps of Engineers has spent about $4 billion so far of the... SF Gate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019445/posts#comment Thu, 22 May 2008 00:19:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007022/posts 4 Investigates: Floodwalls stuffed with newspaper? 11:54 PM CDT on Thursday, April 24, 2008 Lee Zurik / WWL-TV News Anchor "It blows my mind." Those are the words St. Bernard parish president Craig Taffaro used to watch videotape Eyewitness News showed him, of floodwalls built to protect his parish. "That should be criminal," Taffaro continues. What he's talking about was witnessed by a St. Bernard Parish resident whodidn't want to be identified, but did have sharp criticism of the work done by a contractor hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. "It's like putting a Band-Aid on the hole... WWL TV News, New Orleans http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007022/posts#comment Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:49:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1840693/posts I've been hearing rumors for a couple of weeks now that New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin is considering running for Governor. I finally found a news outlet that confirms this rumor, thanks to freelance journalist Jason Berry, who appeared on Informed Sources last night to predict that Nagin will run for Governor. Hat tip to Library Chronicles. As an aside, is this Jason Berry the author of Amazing Grace, an account of Charles Evers' run for Governor in Mississippi back in 1972? But back to the issue at hand - Ray Nagin running for Governor of Louisiana. This makes... dailykingfish.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1840693/posts#comment Sun, 27 May 2007 23:38:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1777689/posts One hundred twenty-two levees from Maryland to California are at risk of failing, according to a list released Thursday by the Army Corps of Engineers. There could be danger to people who live in communities near some of the levees as well as a chance that they will have to pay more for insurance, said Butch Kinerney of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's national flood insurance program. The list was released in response to Freedom of Information Act requests filed by news organizations, including The Associated Press. If the Corps of Engineers determines a levee to be at risk of... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1777689/posts#comment Fri, 2 Feb 2007 01:27:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1752681/posts California should create a long-term plan to spend the nearly $5 billion in flood-control bonds approved in November so it doesn't squander the money, Department of Water Resources Director Lester Snow said Tuesday. "The point is, we can waste this money," Snow said during the first in a series of meetings designed to determine how best to spend the voter-approved windfall. "We need to implement programs right now, but we need to be mindful of developing a long-term plan." The money comes from two water bonds on the Nov. 7 ballot. Proposition 1E was sponsored by the Legislature and governor... AP on Bakersfield Californian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1752681/posts#comment Wed, 13 Dec 2006 05:16:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1728025/posts The Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans was a wake-up call for California, whose capital city of Sacramento faces a similar calamity should its aging and deteriorating river levees be breached by storm surges. To his credit, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger acknowledged the potential danger, declared a state of emergency, obtained a half-billion-dollar emergency appropriation to repair the most critical spots along the Sacramento River and its tributaries, persuaded federal authorities to speed up work and then won legislative approval of a $4 billion levee repair bond issue. Rock-filled barges, cranes and other heavy equipment have been working night and day... Sac Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1728025/posts#comment Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:09:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1706941/posts Scientists have long said the only way to restore Louisiana’s vanishing wetlands is to undo the elaborate levee system that controls the Mississippi River, not with the small projects that have been tried here and there, but with a massive diversion that would send the muddy river flooding wholesale into the state’s sediment-starved marshes. And most of them have long dismissed the idea as impractical, unaffordable and lethal to the region’s economy. Now, they are reconsidering. In fact, when a group of researchers convened last April to consider the fate of the Louisiana coast, their recommendation was unanimous: divert the... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1706941/posts#comment Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:22:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1697469/posts Forget F911, the left's hypocrisy can be found in HBO's "When the Levees Broke" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1697469/posts#comment Fri, 8 Sep 2006 00:41:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1693418/posts Kevin Aylward: Katrina: Forget everything you thought you knew Kevin Aylward, The Examiner Aug 31, 2006 WASHINGTON - If you’ve only gotten your news about Hurricane Katrina from the mainstream media, everything you think you know about Katrina flooding New Orleans is probably wrong. On this first anniversary of the tragedy, while the networks congratulate themselves on their often wildly inaccurate reporting in the days following Katrina, there’s a far more important story not being told. We’ve all heard the story: In the early morning hours of Aug 29, 2005, the Category 4 Hurricane Katrina roared ashore, overwhelming the New... The Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1693418/posts#comment Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:02:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1686070/posts Officials who OK'd Delta homes illegally failed to consider sea level rise, groups say. Environmental groups plan to file a lawsuit in Sacramento Superior Court today claiming that flood-control officials violated state law by allowing major levee modifications in San Joaquin County without considering the effect of global warming. The groups, led by the Natural Resources Defense Council, assert that the sea level rise associated with climate change could eventually overtop those levees, putting thousands of people at risk. The suit targets a permit approved June 26 by the state Reclamation Board that cleared the way for the River Islands... Sacramento Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1686070/posts#comment Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:49:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666494/posts SACRAMENTO State lawmakers are betting that voters eager to avoid a Katrina-style disaster in California will rally behind a $4.1 billion bond on the November ballot to shore up the state's fragile levees. While few experts disagree that California needs to rebuild its aging levee system, an Associated Press review of the bond has found the measure requires voters to take a leap of faith that the state will spend the money the way lawmakers have promised. An extensive examination of the measure, reviews of state and federal studies, and interviews with two dozen water experts, lawmakers and environmentalists have... ap on Riverside Press Enterprise http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666494/posts#comment Sun, 16 Jul 2006 03:29:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666302/posts California voters will be asked to approve a $4.1 billion levee bond in November. The figure represents a compromise between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who had sought about $6.5 billion, and Democratic lawmakers, who had wanted to spend about half that. THE PROBLEM: _ Levee system: A fragile network of 2,300 miles of levees in the state's Central Valley and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is in need of major repairs. The system includes 1,600 miles of levees that were reinforced in the 1960s and 1970s and 700 miles that amount to little more than grassy berms. It was built more than... AP - Monterey County Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666302/posts#comment Sat, 15 Jul 2006 18:32:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1661069/posts Sacramento and New Orleans are 2,000 miles apart. But when the Crescent City was submerged in what the media insisted on calling "toxic gumbo" following Hurricane Katrina, it brought overdue attention to the neglected levees of California's Delta. That's the good news. The bad news is that estimates for the amount of money needed to completely fix the Delta levees could range up to $1.5 trillion, according to Ron Ott, deputy director of the California Bay-Delta Authority. Ott came up with that shocking figure by comparing the Delta system to Holland; that country is in the midst of investing $2.5... Capitol Weekly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1661069/posts#comment Thu, 6 Jul 2006 04:35:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1644698/posts BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Opponents of a plan to consolidate the levee boards of southeast Louisiana on Tuesday relaunched their efforts to postpone the plan, four months after the Legislature approved it in the name of ridding the New Orleans area of cronyism and patronage. The levee boards, often blamed for poor upkeep of the levees surrounding New Orleans, were the subject of scrutiny in two special legislative sessions since Hurricane Katrina, with business and community groups calling for their dissolution. The issue became the subject of bitter fights during a special legislative session in February, as Gov. Kathleen... nola.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1644698/posts#comment Wed, 7 Jun 2006 02:12:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642291/posts Corps Takes Blame for Katrina Flooding By CAIN BURDEAU ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS (AP) - 0602dvs-blanco-fp A contrite U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took responsibility Thursday for the flooding of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina and said the levees failed because they were built in a disjointed fashion using outdated data. "This is the first time that the Corps has had to stand up and say, `We've had a catastrophic failure,'" Lt. Gen. Carl Strock, the Corps chief, said as the agency issued a 6,000-page-plus report on the disaster on Day 1 of the new hurricane season. The Corps said... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642291/posts#comment Fri, 2 Jun 2006 14:42:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642142/posts NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A contrite U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took responsibility Thursday for the flooding of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina and said the levees failed because they were built in a disjointed fashion using outdated data. "This is the first time that the Corps has had to stand up and say, `We've had a catastrophic failure,'" Lt. Gen. Carl Strock, the Corps chief, said as the agency issued a 6,000-page-plus report on the disaster on Day 1 of the new hurricane season. The Corps said it will use the lessons it has learned to build better flood... NOLA.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642142/posts#comment Fri, 2 Jun 2006 04:38:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1637663/posts On Tuesday, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the 2006 hurricane season was expected to produce 13 to 16 named storms, including four to six "major" hurricanes of Category 3 strength or higher. No leading forecasters came close to predicting what happened in 2005, when 28 tropical storms spawned a record 15 hurricanes. The 2006 forecast for News Orleans was worse than Watson's prediction for the city last year, he said. But for now, he considers the 2005 season an aberration rather than a trend or a definitive sign of effects from global warming. "If it happens again... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1637663/posts#comment Wed, 24 May 2006 19:48:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635918/posts Big Questions About the Big Easy Hughes Joseph Hughes chairs the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech and serves on the EPA's environmental engineering advisory committee. He toured the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast with President Wayne Clough in November, spoke to former Alumni Association trustees in January and recently sat down with the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Hughes now is helping coordinate a conference that will address the future of New Orleans.What is Georgia Tech's role in the rebuilding of New Orleans? We're at the stage right now in the discussion where there are real questions whether we should rebuild... Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635918/posts#comment Sun, 21 May 2006 17:31:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635329/posts In just eight months, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has done years of work on the Katrina-battered ramparts around New Orleans. The Corps has repaired 169 miles of damaged levee. Replaced long stretches of inadequate concrete floodwall with a much sturdier design. Installed 70-ton gates at the mouths of ruptured drainage canals. But it isn't good enough. Even the man who has led the monumental effort to bring the Big Easy's hurricane protection infrastructure back to pre-Katrina standards says so. The defenses are "better, stronger and more resilient" than ever, said Col. Lewis Setliff. "But I'm only fixing about... AP National http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635329/posts#comment Sat, 20 May 2006 03:00:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1628644/posts With the May revision of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed budget for 2006-2007 due out in just days, he is facing a new issue: What to do with the surplus of tax revenues currently flowing into the state treasury? With history as his guide, he must focus some of that revenue on essential one-time projects that do not plunge California into ongoing commitments that could jeopardize California's current fiscal stability. The governor could hit another home run for Californians by allocating a portion of the state revenue increase to levee repair -- something we have all become too aware is a... SFGate.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1628644/posts#comment Mon, 8 May 2006 17:04:57 GMT