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Agree. However, I remember being in Landscape Architecture in college and one of my professors was from Colorado and took every opportunity to go after the US
by at-fates-hands 4y ago
Agree.
However, I remember being in Landscape Architecture in college and one of my professors was from Colorado and took every opportunity to go after the US Army Corps of Engineers and repeatedly related their failures as a case study in what not to do.
Ironically, a few later in 2005 (while I still in college) Hurricane Katrina blew through all of the US ACOE flood protections. Their plans failed catastrophically with levee breaches in over 50 places.
So yeah, we shouldn't throw our hands up, but the US ACOE doesn't have a great track record for making issues like this better.
- bilbo0s 4y agobut the US ACOE doesn't have a great track record for making issues like this better Neither does anyone else. When I survey the landscape for organizations with the experience and equipment to solve water problems in the US, ACOE is right at the top of the list. What organizations do you feel are better suited to these tasks up and down the Mississippi? Of out west in Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico? Or down in Georgia-Florida? And so on. These are all diverse and complex engineering challenges that impact wide geographic areas. Failure is to be expected. It's one of the maintenance conditions on infrastructure.
- labster 4y agoMaybe NOAA? Perhaps civilian oversight directing military construction would improve things. At least science and commerce are the core missions at NOAA, not just a side job. I remember hearing about how screwed New Orleans was going to be in a meteorology class, eventually. It didn’t take too long. We all knew for decades in the earth sciences.