https://www.nola.com/multimedia/photos/collection_e08ef030-a3f9-11e9-af2d-bf5dd2500186.html#2
Local newspaper's report exposes discrepancies in how the Army Corps of Engineers measures the height of levees compared to river levels, and highlight the Lower 9th Ward Industrial Canal levee as vulnerable.
https://www.nola.com/news/hurricane/article_f31f5436-a347-11e9-beaa-67f2b43123a7.html
Lydia Nicols of Bayou Brief provides a refreshing honest perspective of lessons learned from the river.
Lydia Nicols
Bayou Brief
https://www.bayoubrief.com/2019/07/11/listen-to-the-river-a-change-is-gonna-come/
""But one of the under-appreciated uniquenesses of New Orleans is that the city’s people are among those most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and the crude oil, natural gas, and petrochemical industries on which the city’s people depend by design are most culpable for climate change. And that’s before we even scratch the surface of the environmental injustices that have relegated Black and indigenous peoples, immigrants, and the working-poor to the most vulnerable areas of the most vulnerable region – on the lowest land, adjacent to poisonous plants, in neighborhoods with the least infrastructural support.""
Lydia Nicols
Bayou Brief
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