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6 days ago by Aqua Blog Maven

From the Sacramento Bee: Politicians across the state are demanding major water projects in the Delta, but basic repairs on its vast network of levees have come to a standstill. State reimbursement for levee projects completed as far back as 2007 has been stalled by the budget crisis. This means flo ...

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7 days ago by Baby Stroller Reviews

In the first year of caring for their triplets, Stacey and Brian Estep have changed more than 7,000 diapers and fed them more than 5,000 bottles. “We are odd, we do stick out,” Stacey said. “We have a stroller like a stretch limousine.” In 2005, the Esteps fled New Orleans for Tallahassee during the ...

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10 days ago by Aqua Blog Maven

From the Sacramento Bee: If a tree grows on a levee, is it bad? According to a recent scientific review, there’s no way to tell by reading federal policy. In 2007, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began enforcing national levee maintenance policy in C ...

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10 days ago by Aqua Blog Maven

From the New York Times: Desperate to halt the erosion of Louisiana’s coast, officials there are talking about breaking Mississippi River levees south of New Orleans to restore the nourishing flow of muddy water into the state’s marshes. But in a new analysis, scientists at Louisiana State Universit ...

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11 days ago by Erich Rapp

The Mississippi River does not carry enough sediment through Louisiana to sustain much less restore coastal Louisiana. That has been my nightmare fear since I began studying this subject years ago. It has also been a theme of this blog and an important argument for the monetary liability of the fede ...

Louisiana Coastal Wetlands ... - louisianacoastalwetlands.com

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13 days ago by King of Failures

We heard it again and again that a strong storm may destroy the Sacramento Levees causing a disaster several times more damage than the one in Louisiana. When that happens many Americans will lose their lives,property and our economy will tumble down some more. I heard that it takes 600 billion doll ...

The Eulogy of Failure - faildot.com

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16 days ago by CandyWWGM

In what is being called the largest levee-busting operation North America has ever seen, two brothers are preparing to tear down miles of levees along the Ouachita River in Northern Louisiana to restore the native ecosystem. The river was dammed and the surrounding oak and cypress trees bulldozed to ...

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17 days ago by NO BORDER WALL

On June 2, the Brownsville City Commission finally capitulated to the Department of Homeland Security’s demand that they give away city property to build the border wall. They had attempted to do this twice before, first last July and again this past February. In both instances the commissioners bac ...

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18 days ago by Aqua Blog Maven

From the New York Times: In the 1960s, a group of businessmen bought 16,000 acres of swampy bottomland along the Ouachita River in northern Louisiana and built miles of levee around it. They bulldozed its oak and cypress trees and, when the land dried out, turned it into a soybean farm. Now two brot ...

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19 days ago by CandyWWGM

In the 1960s, a group of businessmen bought 16,000 acres of swampy bottomland along the Ouachita River in northern Louisiana and built miles of levee around it. They bulldozed its oak and cypress trees and, when the land dried out, turned it into a soybean farm. Now two brothers who grew up nearby a ...

Nature's News - natures-news.com · 1 reference