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To: Mephisto who wrote (2768)	8/31/2005 2:44:05 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26021

I"ll watch some news and see what info I can gather.

To: Mephisto who wrote (2768)	8/31/2005 2:46:27 PM
From: BWAC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26021

< I heard the water is no longer rising in the streets of New Orleans> Of course not. The lake and the city reached equilibrium. Now they can start fixing the levee since he water isn't flowing. (which it what they have really known all along)

To: Mephisto who wrote (2768)	8/31/2005 7:53:42 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26021

<<..."Questions are also being raised if the federal government could have done more to protect the region from the deadly flooding. In 1995 Congress authorized the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project. Over the past decade the Army Corps of Engineers has spent $430 million on shoring up levees and building pumping stations. But another $250 million in work remained. According to press accounts, the federal funding largely froze up in 2003. Over the past two years the Times-Picayune paper has run at least nine articles that cite the cost of the Iraq invasion as a reason for the lack of hurricane and flood control funding. Earlier this year President Bush proposed significantly reducing the amount of federal money for the project. He proposed spending $10 million. Local officials said six times as much money was needed."...>> democracynow.org