We have recently spent over a trillion dollars stopping the flood of Communism in the world. I thinks it's time we declare a war on floods, to protect our own people. We can fix our levee's for the cost of a single B1 bomber. The cost per person protected over a 200 year period would be a few pennys per day. The Fallacy that environmentalists oppose levee rehabilitation Some types of levee reconstruction require habitat destruction or disturbance.
Levees are often the weakest link in any flood control system.
Dear Mr. Morton, Charlie Casey here, associate conservation director at Friends of the River. Some believed that the Commission's money ought to be spent only on building and repairing the great system of levees. Some believed in the scheme to relieve the river, in floodtime, by turning its surplus waters off into Lake Borgne, etc. 5.