From: Nigel Hay MILWEB (nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Fri Sep 02 2005 - 07:11:18 PDT
Please put me out of my misery- what exactly is a levee? ever since the song
American Pie that went ".... took my Chevy to the levee" I have had no idea.
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Sent: 02 September 2005 15:55
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Subject: Re: [MV] Rebuilding levees
God save us from evironmentalists trying to save us from us! Massive forest
fires every year, imported oil, no new refineries, no new nuclear power
plants, now N. O. Corps of Engineers have been fighting since the 60's to
correct the levees...
Alan
> No way it would have been done it in a couple of
> years. You forgot the required tie ups in court by
> enviromental groups and state agencies over the issue.
>
>
> We go through long legal battles over the dredging
> spoils everytime the Corps wants to dredge the ship
> channel up the Delaware River.
>
> Rick
>
>
> --- Wes Knettle <wsknettl@centurytel.net> wrote:
>
>> The US corps of engineers had already re-evaluated
>> the levees two years
>> ago and were putting together a plan to improve
>> them. The plan would
>> have taken a few years to complete. So throwing that
>> 0.1% of the Iraq
>> budget at it would not have made the levees strong
>> enough in time for
>> Katrina.
>>
>> Wes K
>>
>>
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