[StBernard] Point of View by Ron Chapman

[Westley Annis]

John P. Laguens,
 
I worked at the Corps of Engineers for two years and remember a conversation
with some of the older engineers about the MRGO.  I remember one saying that
they would prefer to NOT have to dredge the MRGO.  It takes a lot of money
and the money could be better used elsewhere.
 
I whole-heartedly agree that the MRGO needs to be shutdown and left for the
marshes to reclaim---if that is at all possible at this point considering
all the damage.  I grew up in Chalmette and remember, as a girl, there being
a forest of  live cypress trees.  Not much left at all anymore--a few sticks
it seems.  I think St. Bernard is in for more trouble if something isn't
done to correct the mistake of the MRGO.
 
Michelle Stephenson