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To: LindyBill who wrote (139709)	9/20/2005 8:48:11 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794397

I don't think anyone yet knows what form Reconstruction II will take. The old public housing projects were slowly being dismantled and, in one case, replaced with gentrified rental property. Nobody wants the old form of public housing back. Katrina may have simply accelerated the process of getting rid of it. My guess is that a serious effort will be made to prevent storm surge by putting in effective floodgates on a couple of waterways that feed into Lake P. so that the Lake does not receive such an enormous volume of water. Then, the hurricane protection levees will be built to withstand a cat. 4 storm. The COE has a ton of experience now with how levees work in the absence of wetlands and marshes as well as in the face of subsidence. This experience IMO is likely to lead to the conclusion that a realistic cat. 4 levee will in the future be what was in the past considered adequate to protect against a cat. 5 storm. In other words, the cost will be incredible.