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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (2862)	9/1/2005 9:29:40 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26017

hey oral did you READ what you posted? I think Not! from your link: September 1, 2005 Intricate Flood Protection Long a Focus of Dispute By ANDREW C. REVKIN and CHRISTOPHER DREW The 17th Street levee that gave way and led to the flooding of New Orleans was part of an intricate, aging system of barriers and pumps that was so chronically underfinanced that senior regional officials of the Army Corps of Engineers complained about it publicly for years. Often leading the chorus was Alfred C. Naomi, a senior project manager for the corps and a 30-year veteran of efforts to waterproof a city built on slowly sinking mud, surrounded by water and periodically a target of great storms. Mr. Naomi grew particularly frustrated this year as the Gulf Coast braced for what forecasters said would be an intense hurricane season and a nearly simultaneous $71 million cut was announced in the New Orleans district budget to guard against such storms. He called the cut drastic in an article in New Orleans CityBusiness. In an interview last night, Mr. Naomi said the cuts had made it impossible to complete contracts for vital upgrades that were part of the long-term plan to renovate the system. ---------------------------- continued at link