If you like your flood-insurance rates, you should love it when your street floods

Originally posted on The Lens on May 14th, 2015. See original post here. It’s not a reach to say New Orleans may be America’s most counterintuitive city. After all, we drive east to get to the West Bank. We bury...

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St. Bernard residents could see flooding, higher insurance after tax rejection

Originally posted on The Lens on May 4th, 2015. See original post here.   For the president of the regional flood protection authority, St. Bernard Parish’s  rejection  on Saturday of a property-tax increase for  its levee and storm drainage agency had...

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Early results from study of river sediment show enough to make diversions work

Originally posted on The Lens on April 23rd, 2015. View original post here. Since 2007,  Louisiana coastal experts have claimed they can prevent the state’s bottom third from sinking into the Gulf of Mexico based on this assertion: The Mississippi...

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New map, warning system gives detailed flood risk, but not for inside levees

Originally posted on The Lens on April 20th, 2015. See original post here. If a hurricane enters the Gulf this year emergency planners and private citizens will have access to a new Website and system of maps the National Hurricane...

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Day after boasting of Gulf’s health, BP confirms 25,000-pound tar mat

Originally posted on The Lens on March 18th, 2015. View original post here. On Monday, BP released a statement claiming the environment of the northern Gulf of Mexico had returned its “baseline condition” five years after its Deepwater Horizon disaster pumped...

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Confronting the enemy below: hydrologists float plan to keep water in city

Originally posted on The Lens on March 2nd. View original post here. At almost any time, the sky over a New Orleans neighborhood can quickly change from blue to black as a storm moves in, unleashing window-rattling thunder and dense...

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Flood authority discusses appeal of judge’s smackdown to its oil and gas lawsuit

Give up, or fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary? That’s the question the east bank levee authority discussed Thursday after its historic lawsuit against oil and gas companies for wetlands damage suffered a resounding defeat...

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It's a hot time of year, we are doing tours as weather permits.

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Losing Ground: Louisiana's Moon Shot

This story is second in a two-part series on Louisiana’s rapidly disappearing coastline. View the project here. AS BRIG. GEN DUKE DELUCA WRAPPED up his 32-year career with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in August, he contemplated the key...

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