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Hurricane Isaac lays bare the painful economics of flood protection
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[NOLA.com] - "I doubt that you are going to see very much movement at the federal level to expand federal dollars to build those types of projects," said Bob Turner, regional director of the South Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East. Hurricane Isaac. Enlarge
Hurricane Isaac's lessons: Editorial
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[NOLA.com] - Before Katrina, levees along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway bordering eastern New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish were as low as 14 to 15 feet in some places, according to Bob Turner, executive director of the Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East.
Isaac's surge would have created a Betsy-like flood without post ...
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[NOLA.com] - "I think you would have had catastrophic flooding in the Lower 9th Ward, and the Upper 9th, St. Bernard Parish and Chalmette," said Bob Turner, executive director of the flood protection authority. He said such a surge, topped with battering waves
Gulf Coast Stays on Guard in Isaac's Wake
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[Sci-Tech Today] - In Plaquemines Parish, where 8-foot-high tidal levees keep storm water and high tides at bay, a storm surge leapt over the barriers and overran the fishing enclave of Braithwaite, said Bob Turner, regional director of the Southeast Louisiana Flood
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