Posted by kcking
August 17, 2010, 11:10AM
In response to New Orleans rebuilding and resilient, Brookings Institution reports: An editorial http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2010/08/post_103.html
Posted by kcking
August 17, 2010, 11:10AM
It is sad that such distinguished institutions as Brookings and our local heros, the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center would overlook the most critical challenges facing us from Katrina - we neither learned nor applied lessons on how to prepare for the next big one.
Burried in the Interagency Performance Evaluation Taskforce's (IPET) executive summary were the finding that the pre-Katrina flood protection works were a "system in name only" and that future flood protection efforts be undertanken with a "comprehensive systems approach." To that, the Dutch recommended we put safety first. Neither of these have happen and in fact they have been explicitly rejected by our leadership at all levels in favor of economic growth.
The state and city are activily oposing safe rebuilding. The state operated a historically incompetent recovery program. The Corps of Engineers and the LA Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority have purposefully expunged the notion of a true systems approach from their policy and actions.
Untill we put safety first and follow proven world-class comprehensive systems practices, our lives, our property and our viability will continue to be at grave and unknown risk. It will require unprecedent skill and courage to effectively prepare ourselfs for the next one. I hope the Times-Picayune, the Brookings Institute and the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center does what it takes to make us safer.
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