Corps’ Commitment to Restoration?

Today the New Orleans Times Picayune published my letter re a recent decision by Col. Alvin Lee (New Orleans District Commander, US Army Corps of Engineers) to shut down the West Bay river diversion project unless $140 million of restoration funding could be provided to pay for additional dredging to offset shoaling claimed to result from continued project operation.  Click here to read the letter: (http://blog.nola.com/letterstotheeditor/2008/11/corps_shows_lack_of_commitment.html).

Len Bahr