Storm-Related Flood Mitigation – A Louisiana Example for Virginia
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14 responses to “Storm-Related Flood Mitigation – A Louisiana Example for Virginia”
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As a former resident of NoVA, I don’t buy the argument that what happens in Hampton Roads would negatively affect NoVA. Take Hampton Roads’ share of the surplus and fund a flood control project. Uncle Sam needs to fund its own expenses re the Naval Base. But NoVA gets screwed enough.
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That is certainly big picture thinking.
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Even the 35% portion would cost big bucks. Rather than pushing to give up hundreds of millions of dollars in tax cuts, Youngkin could have proposed putting a large slice of the surplus aside to fund a flood control project for Hampton Roads, which would ultimately benefit the whole state. Unfortunately, it is going take a Katrina-scale catastrophe in Hampton Roads before Virginia will do anything.
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I don’t disagree that the state’s attention is elsewhere. But I’ll continue to occasionally put the Civil Works program out there in the hope that proven solutions will convince. I thought the completion of HSDRRS to be such an occasion.
There is no national defense infrastructure in New Orleans.
The world’s largest naval base, the Newport News shipyard and their smaller brethren should, in a rational decision process in Washington, give Hampton Roads the biggest possible leg up if Virginia pursues it.
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Of course, building above sea level has always been a plus…
In some respect, we’re using the Dutch model. First, you build windmills…
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Damn naval bases and ports anyway. Who says they need to be built at sea level?
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I would prefer the Normandy model. Take those worthless aircraft carriers and, like the concrete ships…
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And the sailors and longshoremen can climb up and down the cliffs. Brilliant. That is why you are Nancy Naive and no one else will ever be.
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That’s why you’re the SME of everything and no one else is. Norfolk’s more like London than New Orleans. Virginia Beach is more like Grand Isle.
Tidal gates would help Norfolk. Virginia Beach can’t be saved.
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Like London? Here is London. https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.e4952bc17c0528f098c34a4778fad662?rik=%2bj3dwS7OwCpQzg&pid=ImgRaw&r=0 Note the coast and the naval installations.
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Where is the New Orleans Naval Base? Jacksonville can have ’em. Or is the choice Norfolk NOB Island, or Norfolk the City?
Ya know, at every great sinking, there comes a time to stop bailing and look for things that float.
Of course, for you personally, if you’ve never seen them crib a house, ya gotta see it. They scrape out underneath, cut the water and sewer lines, and start jacking and cribbing. Lift the whole damned thing 8 feet if they want to without cracking a tile or brick. Whip in a new foundation, and voila, you’re good for another century. Go high enough and you can garage under.
This is high tech. My brother-in-law used to use railroad ties and bottle jacks. Follow up with helical pilings and new block.
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Naval Station Mayport Fl. where the ships are based is just north of Jacksonville Beach. It was, last time I looked, at sea level.
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Uh yep. But then they’re no longer a constraint to our solution. They become Florida’s constraint to their problem.
“Solve regional flooding” versus “Solve regional flooding subject to keeping the Navy happy.” One will cost orders of magnitude more.
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Actually there is no difference. The Navy is already for the flood protection of its facilities and the Naval Engineering Command has the lead. The Navy’s interest in off-base protections is for its people and its suppliers, not its facilities. That matches the interests of the Navy with the interests of the governments of the United States, Virginia and Virginia municipalities. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has the expertise, scale and mission to support all of that if the state will step up to serve as non-federal sponsor. For the greens, know that USACE is also the enforcer of environmental laws and EPA regulations on the waters of the United States. In their flood mitigation designs, they by law and practice maximize the use of green solutions before considering engineered protection systems.
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