Green Options » southern Louisiana http://greenoptions.com/tag/southern-louisiana Posts tagged 'southern Louisiana' Tue, 13 May 2008 19:45:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Louisiana Coastal Protection Study Falls Short http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/05/13/louisiana-coastal-protection-study-falls-short/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/05/13/louisiana-coastal-protection-study-falls-short/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 19:45:37 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/05/13/louisiana-coastal-protection-study-falls-short/ New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina and the levee collapse. (Image credit: Infrogmation at Wikimedia Commons under a GNU Free Documentation license.)A new report from the National Research Council (NRC) finds numerous problems with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ followup recommendations for restoring wetlands and protecting southern Louisiana from another Katrina-like disaster.

Among the most worrisome findings in the paper: the Corps’ failure to “consider the potential for structural failure of levees and floodwalls.”

“As a consequence,” the NRC report states, “the true risk to homes and businesses and people behind structures has not been determined.”

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