After more than a year of cascading delays, the Army Corps of Engineers has scuttled plans to install temporary sluice gates to block hurricane storm surges at eight Jefferson Parish drainage pumping stations.
The decision will leave the pump stations without the layer of extra protection for at least two more hurricane seasons while the corps works on permanent barriers against a 100-year storm, a corps official said Tuesday.
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"What I've found mostly with the Corps of Engineers is when they tell you hello, they're lying," Councilman Louis Congemi said.
Perhaps Congemi can take some of the "taco trucks" that spoil his fine Parish, and reconfigure them into temporary sluice gates.
What I've mostly found with Councilman Louis Congemi is that when he tells me hello, there's a stunning lack of salsa verde on his breath.
Labels: ACoE, flood protection, Food
