The Government Accountability Office has responded to pressure from Louisiana’s senior senator to review the US Army Corps of Engineers’ installation of $26 million worth of pumps installed last year in New Orleans even though senior officials knew they were defective. After the Corps of Engineers’ supposedly Cat 3-proof levees failed in a Cat 2 [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2007
PoP: The “Soul” of New Orleans has no boundary line
Sunday, March 25, 2007 – 2:00 am
This, from a posting I placed on a professional meeting planning site, in response to a post regarding New Orleans. You can take the girl out of New Orleans, but you’ll never take New Orleans out of the girl (or guy!)… I’m from New Orleans and I’ve lived in No California/Silicon Valley for 20 years. [...]
NEWS: Color of Change and bringing Katrina survivors home
Sunday, March 25, 2007 – 2:00 am
A friend in New Orleans sent this to me in an email recently, via a student in the School of Social Work at CSU, Chico CA. I think it’s important to note, and so I’m sending it to you as NEWS. Check it out, please: Help the Gulf Coast Recover from Katrina Professor Myers-Lipton from San [...]
NEWS: Gov. Schwarzenegger to President Bush in Feb 2006
Sunday, March 25, 2007 – 2:00 am
“Increasingly severe weather systems each season have accelerated the deterioration of the state’s levee system to the point where they are now in danger of failing during the next major rainfall or earthquake. This worsening situation creates conditions of extreme peril to the public and property protected by the levees, to the environment, and to [...]
NEWS: What is the Delta Initiative?
Sunday, March 25, 2007 – 2:00 am
The Delta Initiative is a multi-year research and planning effort at the University of California – Berkeley, dealing with the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region of California. The fate of the Delta is crucial to California’s future – it is the hub of the state’s water supply system, is an irreplaceable habitat for migrating birds and [...]
NEWS: Corps of Engineers’ policies criticized
Sunday, March 25, 2007 – 2:00 am
WASHINGTON, March 6 (UPI) – A national panel has called for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to restructure its project selection and decision-making procedures. The National Academy of Public Administration was commissioned by Congress to conduct an eight-month study of the Corps, with emphasis on how the Corps prioritizes construction projects. The panel, led [...]
NEWS: California Water Projects
Sunday, March 25, 2007 – 2:00 am
New and broader role needed for Army Corps of Engineers… California and Louisiana have much in common, and not just that both are internationally renowned tourist destinations. In both states, communities, industry and the environment bear significant risk from floods and poorly designed flood-control projects… …While hurricanes are not a threat to California, levees in [...]