That is the $10,000. And now they and congress are waffling on fixing the levees properly.
The fix that is currently in place is sheet pilings driven to 75 feet below sealevel. On one of the canals I have seen these same types of pilings bent like paper by the surge. Sheet pilings won't do for more than a water rise of abount an inch a second based upon the stats I saw in college. Armor them with dirt and concrete and that goes up to 3 inches a second. >From what I gather, the rate of water rise during the surge was in excess of 6 inches a second for Katrina. In my opinion, even the "fixed" levees are insufficient for a reasonable sized hurricane. On 8/23/06, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But why? > > If they had the funds, and they had the engineering specifications...why > didn't they do it? > > Were they incompetent? Were they skimming money off the top? Did they WANT > to see New Orleans drowned? Or....were their specs just plain wrong? > > On 8/23/06, Russel Madere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > When they had the funds they poorly designed the levees and then ignored > > potential problems in the independant engineering reports. On top of > > that, > > they did not meet the specifacations for contruction. > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:214016 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
