“The hurricane storm surge and salt water intrusion caused by MRGO must be stopped. If you want to know more about this issue, come to an informational meeting and open house hosted by the US Army Corps of Engineers on October 28, 2006 to solicit community input on plans to deauthorize deep draft navigation on [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2006
NEWS: Investigators Release Prelim Findings @ Senate Hearing
Saturday, October 21, 2006 – 2:00 am
Get the full story
Raymond Seeds prepared testimony to a Senate panel on the performance of New Orleans flood control system during Hurricane Katrina
Read the full report from UC Berkeley and ASCE investigators (12.9Mb PDF file)
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/11/02_levee.shtml
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“BERKELEY – Many of the New Orleans [...]
NEWS: Rotten to the Corps
Saturday, October 21, 2006 – 2:00 am
http://www.grist.org/comments/soapbox/2006/08/29/grunwald/index.html?source=daily
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“If an unsafe building collapsed and killed 1,000 people, we wouldn t blame the buildings manager, even if he bungled his evacuation plan, or its maintenance crew, even if they had shirked their jobs before the disaster, or the rescue squad, [...]
POP: A Touch of Louisiana in Alameda
Saturday, October 21, 2006 – 2:00 am
Because some of us in CA need that hometown Cajun/Zydeco taste occasionally, I want to share this information. Enjoy and laissez les bon temps roulez… ya ll know what that means, right?
West Coast Cajun/Zydeco Music & Dance AssociationEagles Hall 2305 Alameda Ave.Alameda, Ca. “Upstairs”
Greetings from Louisiana
Hope this finds all of you well and ready to DANCE!Dances [...]
NEWS: More Damaged Levee Areas Identified
Saturday, October 21, 2006 – 2:00 am
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/15786259.htm
SACRAMENTO – State and federal officials have identified at least 71 more damaged levee sections throughout the Central Valley that could fail this winter, and in an unusual step they plan to undertake repairs lasting well into the worst of the rainy season.
Levee experts normally seek to complete repairs by Nov. 1, the official start [...]
NEWS: CA Newest Levees on Brink of Collapse
Saturday, October 21, 2006 – 2:00 am
http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_290205439.html
CBS 5) Dozens of new levee sections in Northern and Central California are so weak, they may be on the brink of crumbling and could fail this winter, inspectors said.The levees in question are some of the most important flood control barriers in the Central Valley and the Delta. Crews are only now getting to [...]
NEWS: Levee Woes Pile Up
Saturday, October 21, 2006 – 2:00 am
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/40571.html
“State and federal officials have identified at least 71 more damaged levee sections throughout the Central Valley that could fail this winter, and in an unusual step they plan to undertake repairs lasting well into the worst of the rainy season.
Levee experts normally seek to complete repairs by Nov. 1, the official start of flood [...]
NEWS: GOVT Testing Levees near Yuba City
Saturday, October 21, 2006 – 2:00 am
http://www.kcra.com/news/10058654/detail.html
YUBA CITY, Calif. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is testing the levee system near Yuba City to see which parts are weakest.
Nearly 70 miles of levees meant to protect parts of the city and elsewhere in Sutter County do not meet federal standards.
Sutter County recently made $55 million in improvements, but [...]
NEWS: Feinstein Urges President to Fund CA Levee Repairs
Saturday, October 21, 2006 – 2:00 am
http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_44044.shtml
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“U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today sent a letter to President George W. Bush requesting that flood control improvements in the Sacramento area – including vital repairs to the areas levee system – be fully funded in the Presidents FY 2008 budget.
“The [...]
NEWS: Corps Watchdogs are Branching Out
Saturday, October 21, 2006 – 2:00 am
http://www.2theadvocate.com/opinion/4406331.html
“Its not surprising that New Orleans is home to Levees.Org, a nonprofit advocacy group established to act as a watchdog over the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The work of the corps came under intense criticism after the New Orleans levee breaks prompted by Hurricane Katrina.
What is perhaps more interesting is that Levees.Org is opening [...]
NEWS: Campaign 2006 Prop 1E
Saturday, October 21, 2006 – 2:00 am
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/10/09/MNG3VLL6IC1.DTL&type=politic
“For Yuba City Councilwoman Karen Cartoscelli, the most important bond on the November ballot is Proposition 1E, a $4.1 billion bond measure that would help repair and reinforce Californias 6,000 miles of crumbling Central Valley levees.
Cartoscelli was Yuba City’s mayor in 1997, when harsh winter storms drove the Feather River to dangerous heights, [...]
Pop: KCs chapter posting format
Saturday, October 21, 2006 – 2:00 am
Greetings, CA chapter members!
Just to lay the foundation for the postings you are going to find on this blog, I will be noting in the Title Lines (NEWS) for the important pieces of new information, or (POP) for my personal opinions, rants and ravings. I can tell you that I have learned a lot in [...]
USACE easing coastal wetland rules
Thursday, October 19, 2006 – 2:00 am
Army Corps proposes easing Gulf wetlands rule Federal wetlands regulators have dropped a bombshell on environmentalists with a little-publicized proposal to relax restrictions on filling in certain wetlands along the entire Mississippi Gulf Coast to speed recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15305378/from/ET/
URGENT! ALACHUA COUNTY MEETING
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 – 2:00 am
FEMA officials are coming to Alachua County to discuss problems with its new flood maps.
See link below for more info!
Everglades meeting, Davie
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 – 2:00 am
DECOMP stands for decompartmentalization — of the Everglades, as part of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP).
Event Title: New DECOMP Proposal Committee-2nd meeting
Date: October 23 – committee meeting
Time: 10:00 to 12:30 am.
Description and General Purpose of the Meeting:
At the September 20-21, 2006 Task Force meeting, Kameran Onley asked the Executive Director to [...]