[IP] more on Levees down after funding cuts

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Roger Dannenberg <rbd@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: August 31, 2005 10:00:53 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: RE: [IP] more on Levees down after funding cuts
Reply-To: rbd@cs.cmu.edu


>   Levees itself may be cause for destruction of natural processes that
> could have protected the low lying areas as the following article says
> regards sashi

Maybe I'm missing your point[AGAIN I AM THE EDITOR .. NOT MY POINT  
DJF], and maybe the article doesn't spell it out.
Without levees, the Mississippi would by now almost certainly be flowing
west of New Orleans through what is now called the Atchafalaya Basin.  
This
would certainly be good for the wetlands and it would relieve some  
flooding
potential in New Orleans, but I don't think citizens would feel their  
"low
lying areas" were protected if the river disappeared.  -Roger




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