[Libloather]

...who argued that the barriers would choke commerce and harm marine life in ecologically sensitive Lake Pontchartrain.

A worker watches the water flow out of a 30 inch pipe that pumps out 27,000 gallons of water per minute in Metairie, La., Tuesday Sept. 6 2005. Water is now being pumped out of the city after officials repaired a broken flood wall. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Another page and a half of info at the link...

[frogjerk]

Envirofacism - killing us all, one disaster at a time...

[frankjr]

Wow, the truth is even beginning to leak out in the L.A. Times. Hey Dims, the end is near!

[Just mythoughts]

Wonder if this is why the environmental wackouts are staying so silent, and NOT demanding an environmental impact study, before the STATE pumps that 'toxic' water into the lake.

Sometimes dirty, toxic water is not really the issue.

[GianniV]

What kind of loser is an "environmentalist?" It must be the lowest form of employment, even lower than dish washer.

[Just mythoughts]

FYI

[rollo tomasi]

'Environmentalist, helping to move society back to the Stone Age one disaster at a time'

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP

[auboy]

BTTT

[q_an_a]

maybe some kind lawyer will file a class action against the Serria KLUB and ask for a billion dollars for the people injured by Katrina. That would make some folks in California reach for their wallets big time.

[SierraWasp]

"The project was stopped in its tracks when an environmental lawsuit won a federal injunction on the grounds that the Army's environmental impact statement was flawed. By the mid-1980s, the Corps of Engineers abandoned the project."

I wrest my case!!! EnvironMentalism... The new home for Communism right here in America!!!

They're turning America into the land of "Hell and High Water!" (They're (the pumpers) having to fight to keep the bodies from getting into intakes of the pumps, today!)

[Grampa Dave]

Hopefully some very good and very hungry trial lawyers will sue these elite watermelons, the governor, da mayor, and the rats in congress for killing and harming innocents.

The poor refugees of N O's could end up owning the governor, da mayor and about half of congress after civil trials.

[marblehead17]

ping

[oldbrowser]

Before we spend Billions of dollars rebuilding NOLA in an untenable location, wouldn't it make more sense to consider rebuilding it where it would have a chance against the next cat 5 that blows into town ?

[.cnI redruM]

Yeah, but look at all the cool wetlands. Nothing quite like a wild and scenic river...(sarcasm off)

[AMERIKA]

THANK YOU!!!

I was just in the process of looking for this!

Regards,

[Mr. Quarterpanel]

Some say it could have worked.

Shoulda, woulda, coulda. Whether this flood control program would have worked or not is sheer speculation. I am a little dismayed that a 30 year old lawsuit is being used to point fingers here. A watertight dome over the entire city would have been useless if somebody failed to close the door. The best laid plans of mice and men can be undone at Nature's whim. Ignore that at your peril.

From where I sit, preparation was lacking, and as such, the primary reason for the chaos and excessive loss of life that ensued. Perhaps nothing could have stopped the flooding.

[AMERIKA]

"signed into law by President Johnson,"

I was just wondering, LBJ was president from 1963 to 1969, Nixon from 1969 to 1974, Gerald Ford from 1974 to 1977, Jimmy Carter was president from 1977 to 1981.

What happened between 1969 and 1977, perhaps it was caught up in the court system!?

[antiRepublicrat]

There was an earlier thread about this, the group being Save Our Wetlands. If you can help me find that earlier thread, there was a link to their site's Google cache of the recently removed page bragging about having stopped certain levee and dam constructions.

[TexasCajun]

But the project, signed into law by President Johnson, was derailed in 1977 by an environmental lawsuit.

Johnson's term was 1963-69.

Liberal Democrat Environmentalist fought his long and hard for 8 yrs it seems.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Can't believe this was in the LA Times...