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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (12139)	2/15/2006 3:24:18 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541347

I saw somewhere -- probably NOLA.com -- that the Army Corps of Engineers wants to put a flood gate of some kind at the 17th St. Canal -- they better hurry. Hurricane season starts soon.

To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (12139)	2/15/2006 3:30:26 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541347

The two board idea is the best since the West Bank is part of the Barataria flood basin and the East Bank is in the Pontchartrain basin. Unless a flood were to cross the River, [highly unlikely, we'd all be swimming with the fishes in that case], it makes no sense to have a levee board that encompasses both basins. They have different geological and hydrological features and need to be kept separate. The transition may be chaotic, however. The idea is to get politics out of the levees, get rid of sleazebags like Bob Harvey who was the head of the Orleans Levee Board, and who is now suing it for things that happened under his watch!! I swear this is true. But the problem will be that politics and levees will always go together. No way to turn the system into something completely apolitical.