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To: Big Bucks who wrote (2111)	9/2/2005 8:28:07 AM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16955

They could take some measures to incrementally improve New Orleans over time. Here's my plan: - Rethink the levee system. It failed because they were inadaquate and couldn't cope with the water pressure from the big lake that was running unusally high. A natural spill system for the lake and channel to send the water around New Orleans seems like the best way to engineer a solution to the levee pressure and failure problem. - Perhaps make some of the lowest parts of New Orleans, the ones that were hardest hit in these floods (some neighborhoods were wiped out) parklands or industry that are less affected by flooding. - Or, raise some of the lowest parts of New Orleans. Use fill materials to literally raise low lying areas by 30 feet or more to make them less flood prone (much of NO is under sea level now) and rebuild them. I know this would be disruptive and would have to be done incrementally, but some of these neighborhoods are completely ruined anyway. Razing them and raising their elevation could be done after the flood. - Build and inner flood wall to protect the historic and government parts of New Orleans. ----------------------------------------------------------- I fear that if we don't take these dramatic steps, then New Orleans will evenutally just have to be abandoned, as mother nature wants it back as a lake, and mother nature has the upper hand with rising sea levels, diminishing marshlands and fiercer storms. In the long run, New Orleans will be reclaimed by nature unless we take measures to prevent it.