Protecting the Gulf: Specifics vs. Matrices
Corps report ignores call for specifics--NOLA.com
If you've never seen the Latin plural for matrix, well, there is it my title. Apparently the Army Corps has been working on a report, mandated by the US Congress, on what needs to be done to protect New Orleans from a CAT 5 storm, and after the report was rewritten by Bush Administration officials, it came back with big red lines through such wording as:
-- Closing the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet and restoring adjacent wetlands, which had already been required by Congress in a separate supplemental appropriations bill.
-- Early authorization of work on the Morganza to Gulf levee system in parts of Jefferson, Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, after the administration argued that the chances of passage of the long-delayed Water Resources Development Act, which also contains the levee project, had improved this year.
-- Authorization of several projects to rebuild barrier shorelines in Jefferson, Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, which also is included in the water bill.
-- Authorization of several restoration projects that would protect wetlands in southwestern Louisiana, which must now await money from the Breaux Act trust fund, which pays for smaller restoration projects.
Wow. Instead of actually coming out and saying what needs to be done to protect New Orleans, the Army Corps will now use this report as a guideline for making decisions on what to do in the EVENT of a storm.
Excuse me.
Didn't Congress say the report was to be written with specific projects to protect citizens from storms, as opposed to a flow chart on what to do next? Isn't that what got FEMA into trouble during the storm last year? Flow charts and administrative red tape?
According to a draft version of the rewrite obtained by The Times-Picayune, it instead focuses almost exclusively on setting up a "set of matrices" to provide decision makers with information they'll need to determine how strong a protection system to build.
And it warns that even when the final report is completed in December 2007, Congress will not be presented with recommendations for projects to protect New Orleans and the rest of the state's coastline.
Then why even BOTHER with a report? Idiots. I wonder why all the editing? Whatever the final outcome of this report, I NEVER want to see what I saw last year on TV during Katrina EVER AGAIN, in ANY American city. And I suspect the rest of America feels the same way.
If you've never seen the Latin plural for matrix, well, there is it my title. Apparently the Army Corps has been working on a report, mandated by the US Congress, on what needs to be done to protect New Orleans from a CAT 5 storm, and after the report was rewritten by Bush Administration officials, it came back with big red lines through such wording as:
-- Closing the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet and restoring adjacent wetlands, which had already been required by Congress in a separate supplemental appropriations bill.
-- Early authorization of work on the Morganza to Gulf levee system in parts of Jefferson, Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, after the administration argued that the chances of passage of the long-delayed Water Resources Development Act, which also contains the levee project, had improved this year.
-- Authorization of several projects to rebuild barrier shorelines in Jefferson, Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, which also is included in the water bill.
-- Authorization of several restoration projects that would protect wetlands in southwestern Louisiana, which must now await money from the Breaux Act trust fund, which pays for smaller restoration projects.
Wow. Instead of actually coming out and saying what needs to be done to protect New Orleans, the Army Corps will now use this report as a guideline for making decisions on what to do in the EVENT of a storm.
Excuse me.
Didn't Congress say the report was to be written with specific projects to protect citizens from storms, as opposed to a flow chart on what to do next? Isn't that what got FEMA into trouble during the storm last year? Flow charts and administrative red tape?
According to a draft version of the rewrite obtained by The Times-Picayune, it instead focuses almost exclusively on setting up a "set of matrices" to provide decision makers with information they'll need to determine how strong a protection system to build.
And it warns that even when the final report is completed in December 2007, Congress will not be presented with recommendations for projects to protect New Orleans and the rest of the state's coastline.
Then why even BOTHER with a report? Idiots. I wonder why all the editing? Whatever the final outcome of this report, I NEVER want to see what I saw last year on TV during Katrina EVER AGAIN, in ANY American city. And I suspect the rest of America feels the same way.
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