Perry Miller, Wahpeton, N.D., column: Corps tweaks data to get diversion funding
May 26, 2012 at 7:05 pm in Grand Forks Herald
The Army Corps of Engineers has been engaging in some highly questionable analysis in its definition of the 100-year flood plain in Fargo-Moorhead. As a result, the Corps’ dam/diversion quickly is losing its claim to being a cost-effective project. Continue Reading
The only thing not mentioned here is the founding reason that FEMA is now reviewing flood data and why the Army Corps of Engineers is recalculating cost/benefit ratios. The answer is the Great Flood of New Orleans in 2005 during Katrina. The city went underwater NOT because of Mother Nature but because of blatant civil engineering mistakes made by the Army Corps. All that death and destruction lead directly to national policy changes including the first ever country wide Levee Safety Act of 2007.
Sandy Rosenthal, founder of Levees.org
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