Comments on: Before the Flood http://www.miller-mccune.com/science-environment/before-the-flood-3381/ Nationally Acclaimed Politics, Science and Culture Coverage Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:00:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Editilla~New Orleans Ladderhttp://www.miller-mccune.com/science-environment/before-the-flood-3381/#comment-1749 Editilla~New Orleans Ladder Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:58:30 +0000 http://blog.miller-mccune.com.s72010.gridserver.com/2009/10/26/before-the-flood/#comment-1749 "Last year, the river came within a few feet of such a breach, which could do for some St. Louis neighborhoods what Katrina did for New Orleans." Even Corps Water Titan Gerald Galloway knows that statement is false. Katrina missed New Orleans and hit MS. New Orleans was flooded by the US Army Corps of Engineers, when their flood control structures failed in 56 locations. 3 of those catastrophic engineering failures accounted for 80% of the flooding, and were due to "easily avoided engineering mistakes", as stated in the ILIT Study, the Corps own studies, admitted by the Corps in Federal Court and Congressional Testimony. Katrina did not flood New Orleans. The Corps of Engineers flooded New Orleans.Given your work as a journalist of so many years experience, I would have expected you to cover this Fact and not resort to Katrina Shorthand to describe the Corps engineering failures in the New Orleans District 8/29/05. Please correct yourself in this article and in future reporting. Please contact me to let us know that you have corrected this misstatement of Fact.Until you understand this salient difference between Man-Made Disaster and Natural Disaster, you will always be at the mercy of the word of the men who built the Corps, water industry Titans like Gerald Galloway. He is the guy who was going coast to coast in 2008 trying to blame the Midwest levee failures on muskrats, farmers, small-town city councils... in short: everyone but the Corps of Engineers who built those levees on the Rivers. Down south we call him the Muddy Water Boy. “Last year, the river came within a few feet of such a breach, which could do for some St. Louis neighborhoods what Katrina did for New Orleans.”
Even Corps Water Titan Gerald Galloway knows that statement is false.
Katrina missed New Orleans and hit MS.
New Orleans was flooded by the US Army Corps of Engineers, when their flood control structures failed in 56 locations. 3 of those catastrophic engineering failures accounted for 80% of the flooding, and were due to “easily avoided engineering mistakes”, as stated in the ILIT Study, the Corps own studies, admitted by the Corps in Federal Court and Congressional Testimony.
Katrina did not flood New Orleans.
The Corps of Engineers flooded New Orleans.

Given your work as a journalist of so many years experience, I would have expected you to cover this Fact and not resort to Katrina Shorthand to describe the Corps engineering failures in the New Orleans District 8/29/05.
Please correct yourself in this article and in future reporting.
Please contact me to let us know that you have corrected this misstatement of Fact.

Until you understand this salient difference between Man-Made Disaster and Natural Disaster, you will always be at the mercy of the word of the men who built the Corps, water industry Titans like Gerald Galloway. He is the guy who was going coast to coast in 2008 trying to blame the Midwest levee failures on muskrats, farmers, small-town city councils… in short: everyone but the Corps of Engineers who built those levees on the Rivers. Down south we call him the Muddy Water Boy.

]]> By: Emily Wilmsenhttp://www.miller-mccune.com/science-environment/before-the-flood-3381/#comment-856 Emily Wilmsen Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:36:55 +0000 http://blog.miller-mccune.com.s72010.gridserver.com/2009/10/26/before-the-flood/#comment-856 This might interest you: Colorado State University is studying levee overtopping. Please see http://www.news.colostate.edu/Release/4913. This might interest you: Colorado State University is studying levee overtopping. Please see http://www.news.colostate.edu/Release/4913.

]]> By: Anonymous Userhttp://www.miller-mccune.com/science-environment/before-the-flood-3381/#comment-837 Anonymous User Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:30:58 +0000 http://blog.miller-mccune.com.s72010.gridserver.com/2009/10/26/before-the-flood/#comment-837 Very good article and exposes the need to put planning in a watershed context. One clarification is that the VT legislature granted temporary exempt status to composting facilities for Act 250 land use regulation until July 2010. Compost facilities are subject to VT Solid Waste Regulations, VT Stormwater Regulations and/or VT Agency of Agriculture regulations and in some cases local zoning. The article implies the left-leaning Burlingtonians prompted the state legislature to exempt composting from regulation. That is not true. The Act 250 moratorium allows for a mandated compost study committee to review the sometimes contradictory regulations regarding composting that are now on the books. More detail than you wanted I'm sure but just sensitive to the subject when filling out numerous forms and background info for compost site regulations. Very good article and exposes the need to put planning in a watershed context. One clarification is that the VT legislature granted temporary exempt status to composting facilities for Act 250 land use regulation until July 2010. Compost facilities are subject to VT Solid Waste Regulations, VT Stormwater Regulations and/or VT Agency of Agriculture regulations and in some cases local zoning. The article implies the left-leaning Burlingtonians prompted the state legislature to exempt composting from regulation. That is not true. The Act 250 moratorium allows for a mandated compost study committee to review the sometimes contradictory regulations regarding composting that are now on the books. More detail than you wanted I’m sure but just sensitive to the subject when filling out numerous forms and background info for compost site regulations.

]]> By: william hughes-gameshttp://www.miller-mccune.com/science-environment/before-the-flood-3381/#comment-798 william hughes-games Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:58:12 +0000 http://blog.miller-mccune.com.s72010.gridserver.com/2009/10/26/before-the-flood/#comment-798 What a lot of perfectly simple good sense. It's amazing that some senators can't understand it. Might I suggest to Mr Kline to add another string to his bow. Make sure beavers are introduced into the upper catchment of all possible rivers with a history of flooding. Your flood peaks will be greatly reduced.http://mtkass.blogspot.com/2007/07/canadian-beaver-pest-or-benefactor.html What a lot of perfectly simple good sense. It’s amazing that some senators can’t understand it. Might I suggest to Mr Kline to add another string to his bow. Make sure beavers are introduced into the upper catchment of all possible rivers with a history of flooding. Your flood peaks will be greatly reduced.http://mtkass.blogspot.com/2007/07/canadian-beaver-pest-or-benefactor.html

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