Houma Today reports that the debate continues in Terrebone and Lafourche parishes over whether or not it’s sensible and reasonable to build the Morganza-to-the-Gulf hurricane-protection system.
Proponents argue that the proposed system is critical to protecting the communities in the area. As the Terrebonne Levee Director put it: “Without Morganza, soon we’ll have water on the back stoop of these communities, or right up against parish levees.”
Opponents counter that the levees will encourage growth in what is an inherently unsafe area. “It’s really unfair to be told this levee is going in and allow it to raise false optimism in the minds of people who don’t know any better,” countered the former director of the Governor’s Applied Coastal Science Program.
Read more in “New Levees Will be Tested by Encroaching Gulf“.
Photo: Bob Jagendorf