The "Hurricane Highway" - Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO)

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  1. A Summary Analysis of the Failure to Close the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet(MRGO) - Before Hurricane Katrina the closure of the MRGO was not going to happen internally from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It would have to come from political pressure from U.S. Louisiana Senators like Mary Landrieu and Senator Breaux. We all knew the Corps was not going to do it

  2. March 10, 2007 - Video Clips: MRGO "Hurricane Highway" & The Wetlands - How their Destruction by the Corps of Engineers by building miles of shipping lanes for oil and gas exploration contributed to the New Orleans Flood.

  3. March 2, 2007 - New Orleans May Sue Army Corps for $77 Billion Over Katrina - Submitting a claim for a staggering $77 billion, the city of New Orleans joined tens of thousands of would-be plaintiffs who rushed to beat a Thursday deadline to alert the Army Corps of Engineers that they may sue for losses resulting from the levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina.

  4. Feb. 2, 2007 - Judge Says Katrina Victims Can Sue Army Engineers - A federal judge in New Orleans on Friday ruled that residents of areas heavily flooded when Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters were funneled down a New Orleans navigation channel can sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

  5. July 13, 2006 - Class-Action Suit Seeks MR-GO's End - Eight residents of St. Bernard Parish and New Orleans' 9th Ward, including two public officials, filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday aimed at forcing closure of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet.

  6. May 10, 2006 - Letter to Mitch Landrieu RE: Closure of MRGO - Mitch is certainly right on one thing, “we have a zero margin for error”. And keeping the MR-GO open or ignoring the issue is more than “zero margin”. It's politics as usual. Unfortunately this issue isn't going to go away, because it's a festering cancerous growing sore on the soul of New Orleans.

  7. April 26, 2006 - Letter to the Editor; Re: Gulf Outlet Unlikely to Close April 24 – Times Picayune - SOWL joins with the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, and the many other sensible sane groups and individuals in this community that says Mr.Go has got to go.

  8. April 24, 2006 - Mississippi River Gulf Outlet Unlikely to Close - "The channel is a disaster, and it has been since it was built. But now we're stuck with it, so you just have to deal with what you've got," said John Koerner III, a New Orleans businessman who was chairman of the flood protection subcommittee for Mayor Ray Nagin's Bring New Orleans Back Commission.

  9. St. Bernard Blames MR-GO for Flood - The Parish Council on Monday authorized the administration to consult with attorneys about whether the parish should sue the agencies, saying the MR-GO served as a corridor for Katrina's surge to reach St. Bernard neighborhoods.

  10. Oct. 24, 2005 - Katrina May Mean Mr-Go Has to Go - Scientists from Louisiana State University's Hurricane Center say the Gulf Outlet, also known as MR-GO, and a second channel, the Intracoastal Waterway, funneled Katrina's powerful surge into a narrow bottleneck just north of Chalmette.

  11. Feb. 29, 2004 - MRGO, The Washout - Mr. Go was supposed to provide a major economic boost and stimulate industrial development, but traffic never did meet expectations. On an average day only a couple of ships will pass along it, while dredging costs can easily top $20 million a year. Mr. Go is responsible for only a small percentage of the tonnage coming through the Port of New Orleans.

  12. June 6, 2003 - MRGO, Land Loss, & the Threat of Hurricanes - The 1998 tropical storm season caused extensive damage to the barrier islands that form a natural hurricane barrier for southeastern Louisiana. This year’s storms destroyed over 50 percent of the Chandeleur Island chain. Due to this land loss, and the continuing wetlands destruction caused by the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO), over 100,000 residents of southeast Louisiana are now more vulnerable to tropical storms than at any time in history.

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