True Voice of the Wetlands

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How Shell Has Privatized & Controls Louisiana, & Selects Windell Curole & Jerome Zeringue to Lead the State's New Coastal Panel

R. King Milling Should Resign as Chair of CPRA of Louisiana

VOICE of the WETLANDS is SAVE OUR WETLANDS

Save Our Wetlands Sues Terrebonne Levee District to Stop Morganza Levee Construction

Shell's America's Wetlands is Fueling the Coast

AMERICA'S WETLANDS IS SHELL OIL

Sixteen Coastal Scientist Object to Morganza "Leaky Levee"

Six Reasons Why Morganza "Leaky Levees" Are Unproven Storm Protection

Bobby Jindal pushes 11 Billion $Dollar$ Morganza "Leaky Levee" Pork Barrell Project

Morganza: Salvation or 'Scam'?

Important Lessons Which the Morganza "Leaky Levee" Project Ignores

Houma Navigational Channel(HNC) the other "Hurricane Highway"

Morganza's $10.7 Billion Cost Estimate Stuns Officials

VOICE of the WETLANDS exposes Americas Wetlands=Shell Oil

Time Magazine Article Casts Cynical Eye on Morganza "Leaky Levee"

Windell Curole Pushes 11 Billion $Dollar$ Morganza "Leaky Levee" Pork Barrell Project

Terrebonne Levee Director Accuses Save Our Wetlands of Flooding New Orleans

Houma Courier Article Does Not Tell the Whole Story

Was a Permit Necessary to Build Local Levee?

Lawmakers Ask State For Help With Morganza Lawsuit

Windell Curole Pushes 11 Billion $Dollar$ Morganza "Leaky Levee" Pork Barrell Project

Windell Curole is pushing a one and 11 billion dollar Morganza "Leaky Levee" scheme-scam under guise of hurricane protection for people of Houma.

Windell Curole is proceeding without permits under Clean Water Act and without final authorization from Corps of Engineers or Congress.

Windell Curole wants the good tax paying people of Houma to fork over their hard earned tax money to pay for this illegal project that will pump hundreds of millions of dollars into pockets of the T. Baker Smith engineering empire.

Windel Curole with backing of Louisiana politicians preaches fear to convince people of Houma that these walls of "Leaky Levees" will protect them from hurricane tidal surges when in reality will drown them.

Windell Curole hides behind the facade of Shell Oil Americas' Wetlands backed "Voice of the Wetlands," singing songs about saving Louisiana Wetlands, but pushing the Morganza alignment that will destroy over 166,000 acres of wetland hurricane barriers.

People of Houma you are being lied to by the power structure that controls your levee protection of which Windell Curole is a spokesman and puppet for.

People of Houma take a minute and deep breath. Look at what the scientists are saying about this "Leaky Levee" scam. These scientists are not in the pocket of Shell's Americas' wetlands. These scientists are not in the pockets of the T. Baker Smith engineering empire.

Exceprt Below from the December 13-14, 2006 Science Board of the Louisiana Coastal Area (LCA) Ecosystem Restoration Program Report from the Science Board Meeting - Morganza to the Gulf "Leaky Levees" (read full article)

Leaky levees are hurricane storm surge protection features designed to allow normal tidally and meteorologically driven flows through gates that can be closed to curtail storm surge. In other words, it is intended that functioning tidal wetlands will be maintained landward of the levee alignment. Leaky levees are a major feature of the Morganza-to-Gulf Hurricane Protection Project in the Terrebonne Basin.

1. There are large uncertainties about the effects of leaky levees on enclosed tidal wetlands, including the degree of interference with water-level variations, vertical soil accretion and migration of fishery species; entrapment of saline waters if overtopped or breached and fresh waters from storm water runoff; and other water quality issues. Although they are designed to stabilize vertical fluctuations of water level, marsh management schemes have often had deleterious effects on wetland sustainability, fishery habitat value, and entrapment of saline or fresh water.
   
   
2. Cases where a large portion of the estuarine basin is enclosed by a leaky levee (e.g. the Barataria Basin) are more problematic than where smaller areas of wetlands are so enclosed because of the technical and practical challenges of managing large volumes of water exchange.
   
   
3. The compensation of diminution of sediments subsidies from the marine side by river diversions into the upper basins, as envisioned in the State Master Plan, is an intriguing but untested concept.
   
   
4. Strong state laws and policies would be required to prevent development of low-lying areas protected by leaky levees. Otherwise, expanded development in subsiding polders would just bring more disasters.
   
   
5. Despite the existence of leaky levees, for example along portions of the Morganza-to-Gulf alignment, surprisingly little scientific information is available on their effects on tidal exchange, sheet and subsurface flow, water-level fluctuation, wetland soil and plant dynamics, water quality, and ingress and egress by fishery species. Evaluation of these effects through field research, monitoring, and modeling should be a very high priority.
   
   
6. In some regions the leaky levees have alignments that take into account physical processes and long-term evolution of the landscape. In others the alignments appear to be determined primarily for human infrastructure or political reasons. Where leaky levees are adopted, the alignments should be based on assessment of how the landscape will evolve around the new obstructions.

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