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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe [quote] If a city has a local problem, they are responsible for addressing it. Gabe [/quote] Gabe, while I certainly agree with you from an economic POV, the actual fact's of the matter may be a great deal more complex. I guess what you are saying is (in essance) if the A.C.E. built a dike and levy system capable of withstanding a category 3 hurricane, and practical knowledge indicates that these improvements should be up to category 5 specs, that the City was negligent for failing to install enhancements necessary to meet the cat5 requirements? Well, are we sure that doing so was within the authority of the city> The shipping of the Mississippi river is of concern to MANY states, and consequently I have to suspect that anything the City set out to do would be mired in federal involvement. Especially with the federally installed improvements already in place, just proving that the remedial enhancements to be added would not impact the federally performed work already done in a negative or unforseen way , would no doubt be a lengthy headache to endure. Abstractly, suppose the CNO decided they wanted to put in a hydro electric dam and generator across the entire Mississippi, at their milepost along the waterway. What do think their chances of finding approval would be? (yes it's an absurd example, but it illustrates the inevitability that the Fed would be LARGELY invovled in any work the city hoped to do) One other item that mighr weigh into the equation of whether the city would even be allowed to perform work of the scope that would be necessary,.. can be found by example right here closer to home in Indiana. There is a small river behind my house. Indiana state law specifies that IF the waterway is deemed navigable by the state, then my property line is at the waters edge. In contrast, if the waterway is not considered navigable (by the state) then my property line is (assuming I only own land on one side) at the center of the stream. BUT BUT BUT! The Federal Govt DOES consider the stream behind my house to be "navigable"...so, guess where that puts my property line ...anyway... at the water line. I was in the process of putting in a cement pier behinfd my house, and found that because of the federal aspect, the permitting process, with all the filings etc would cost 10 times as much as the actual value of th work I was going to perform, so instead I opted for a 'non-permanant ' structure, that did not require such close scrutiny. I can only imagine that the obstacles faced by any entity planning on doing work of the scale required to bring NO up to cat 5 standards would be so many magnitudes of order greater, that it would effectively be prohibitive. There would always be some expert in some dept somewhere with profound objection to the means manner and method of work planned, refusing to give his approval. Of course, that is an assumption on my part...but I'll bet it is a good one.
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