Funnel effect revealed by storm-surge model

  Future integrated planning and decision making should recognize, account for and mitigate the disruption of coastal landscape dynamics when formulating and evaluating navigation channel expansion, maintenance or abandonment.
 

 


Oil and gas canals


Dutch floodgates

 

 



Earlier Relevant Press Reports

Relevant press reports tracked during preparation of report
Note: some of these links no longer active, but articles may be in archives
Times-Picayune series on the Dutch experience "Beating Back the Sea"
Times-Picayune
"Corps may put gates at key canals" 11/12
Living on Earth
"Rebuilding the Gulf Coast" 11/13 (link to mp3 recording)
Baton Rouge Advocate "BR panelists pessimistic on outlook for La. coast" 11/14
USA Today "Katrina stirs debate over huge shipping channel's fate" 11/14
New York Times "Louisiana's Marshes Fight for Their Lives" 11/15
Times Picayune "Port, St. Bernard agree on plan for controversial ship channel" 11/15
BizNewOrleans.com "Deal reached on MRGO" 11/15
MSNBC
"44 oil spills found in southeast Louisiana" 11/19
Lafayette Daily Advertiser " Scientists map the muck" 11/19
Times-Picayune Most everyone wants to close the shipping channel. 11/27
Times-Picayune Call it MR-GONE 11/27
New York Times For Category 5 Safety, Levees Are Piece of a $32 Billion Pie 11/29
San Diego Union-Tribune Restoring wetlands is a complicated business 11/30
Baton Rouge Advocate Scientist says rebuilt coast won't save south Louisiana 12/5
Los Angeles Times Mike Tidwell: Giving up on New Orleans 12/6
Times-Picayune
Evidence points to man-made disaster 12/08
Houston Chronicle
Mike Tidwell: Battle for New Orleans is over; this president lost it 12/8
Times-Picayune
Map: How disaster happened (pdf) 12/9
Baton Rouge Advocate Scientists say levees need new concepts 12/10
Dallas Morning News
New Orleans rebirth depends on marshes 12/10
New York Times
editorial
Death of an American City 12/11
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
The forgotten hurricane12/11
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mike Tidwell: Give up on New Orleans now 12/11
Los Angeles Times
Encroaching Seas Test Ingenuity of Lowlands 12/11
New York Times
On Gulf Coast, a Conflict Over How to Rebuild 12/12
Chicago Tribune Still in harm's way 12/15
Times-Picayune
'STRONGER AND BETTER' 12/16
Reuters
US to spend $3 bln on New Orleans levees 12/16
Chicago Tribune
Bush pledges $1.5 billion for levees 12/16
Los Angeles Times
Bush Seeks $1.5 Billion More to Bolster Levees 12/16
Times-Picayune
St. Bernard divided on MR-GO plan 12/17
Baltimore Sun
Time, organization hinder plan to protect New Orleans 12/19
Times-Picayune
SHELLACKING THE COAST 12/19
Times-Picayune
40-Arpent levee boost planned 12/19
Times-Picayune
Big aid package nearing House passage 12/19
Baton Rouge Advocate Bill ties La. aid, ANWR drilling 12/19
LA Times
editorial
Protecting New Orleans 12/19
WWF Newsroom
Environmental security in a post-tsunami world 12/19
Times-Picayune $29 billion aid bill wins Senate OK 12/22
PR Newsline Officials Call for Offshore Revenue Sharing for Louisiana
Washington Post $29 Billion Approved for Gulf Coast Storm Relief 12/23
Times-Picayune Plaquemines, St. Bernard start anew 12/25
New York Times With Coastline in Ruins, Cajuns Face Prospect of Uprooted Towns 12/27
Marketwatch
Recovery hinges on levee protection 12/27
CounterPunch
T.W. Croft:
Gulf Storms, Fables of Reconstruction and Hard Times 12/30 Times-Picayune Wetlands bounce back after hurricanes 12/31
Earth and Sky Radio
Reconstructing New Orleans ... Mead Allison interview 01/01
The Nation
Ari Kelman:
In the Shadow of Disaster 01/02
Times-Picayune
Corps cash to buy better levees 01/05
Times-Picayune Louisiana has little time left in Congress 01/07
Times-Picayune
One for all, and all for flood protection 01/07
Times-Picayune MR-GO goes from hero to villain 01/08
Times-Picayune Closing one channel won't solve everything 01/08
Times-Picayune Officials tiptoe around footprint issue 01/08
New York Times All Parts of New Orleans Included in Rebuilding Plan 01/08
New York Times
With Findings on Storms, Centrist Recasts Warming Debate 01/10
Times-Picayune Louisiana visitors plead for Dutch style coastal defenses 01/11
Baton Rouge Advocate Dutch water-control system impresses 01/13
Times-Picayune Engineers have qualms about MR-GO work 01/13
Baton Rouge Advocate Group: 'Fix our coast or we are toast' 01/13
Baton Rouge Advocate Levee investigators to meet this Wed. 01/15
LA Times
Fatal Flaws: Why the Walls Tumbled in New Orleans 01/17
Science editorial
Acts of God? 01/20
Times-Picayune editorial Close the case on MR-GO 01/21
New York Times
Competing plans to repair New Orleans flood protection 01/22
Times-Picayune
Levee system along river held its ground in storm 01/23
Baton Rouge Advocate ‘Motley' crew of scientists, others brainstorm... 01/25

   
 

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