8 hours ago by Rex Archer

Recently in 2009, a group of Officials and a few Citizens met at the Feather River Set back levee to celebrate the Completion of the RD 784 levee upgrades started in 2004. This long awaited occassion has been heralded as the culmination of the TRLIA program listed by TRLIA project engineer Ric Rineh ...

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1 day ago by 2thinknow

EDITOR’S COMMENT: The lessons of comparative studies and books detailing single-events in one city, are often instructive in the challenges faced by other cities. In the event of rising tides, many cities will be affected. That’s what makes “Perilous Place, Power Storms: Hurricane Protection in Coas ...

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2 days ago by Elliott Feldman

A Louisiana federal court issued a decision this week that may affect thousands of claims in the ongoing Hurricane Katrina litigation. After a 19 day bench trial for five flood victims that filed suit against the United States Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE), U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duvall aw ...

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3 days ago by Clay

"In a landmark decision, a federal judge has ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding by Hurricane Katrina" from WDSU. Here are a few notes and thoughts: From the CS Monitor: "The government's primary defense is that what we di ...

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3 days ago by Lex

Good news, bad news: The good news: The S&P 500 is sitting on a ton of cash. The bad news: The cash came from being overleveraged and from failure to invest in existing business and/or growth, which will lead to bad future news on both revenues and employment. It’s OK if you’re a Republican: The Oba ...

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3 days ago by quintascott

The following quotation from my upcoming book, The Mississippi, explains the vulnerability of levees: “As massive as they are, levees are fragile come floodtime. Leave a stick in the levee during construction, when it rots, it creates a cavity, weakening the levee. Let a small animal or crawdad burr ...

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3 days ago by oyster

Commenter joejoejoe checks in and alerts us to some specific excerpts from the recent ruling of interest. Joejoejoe writes: === If you get a chance, read through pages 147-150 in the judge's ruling against ACoE. (189 page PDF here) A few choice excerpts... pg. 148 It is the Court’s opinion that the ...

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3 days ago by Erich Rapp

United States District Judge Stanwood Duval, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana has found the federal government through the Army Corps of Engineers liable for their negligent maintenance of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) allowing flooding damage ...

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5 days ago by quintascott

Multiple Lines of Defense Graphic In January as we were all talking about the inauguration of a new president and his stimulus program, I wrote several times about infrastructure as stimulus. I included this graphic that comes from the Comprehensive Recommendations Supporting the Use of the Multiple ...

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9 days ago

In drafting plans for flood control, waterway navigation and other water-related projects, Army Corps of Engineer designers must tailor plans to meet the demands of rising sea levels, according to a new policy. In the simplest terms, that means that a levee, for example, may need to be designed high ...

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