Latest news: August 26, 2011
By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune. August 25, 2011.
“In a demonstration of the Mississippi River’s formidable land-building power, a new, 5-acre island has sprouted up near the river’s mouth, where this year’s record Mississippi River floodwaters poured through the West Bay freshwater diversion…”
By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune. August 25, 2011.
“The U.S. Coast Guard sent a cutter and an helicopter to the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico today after a report of oil at the site, but found no evidence of oil leaking from the well and plans no further investigation, a spokesman said…”
By Cain Burdeau, Associated Press. August 25, 2011.
“NEW ORLEANS — In one of the biggest enticements yet to get people back to the devastated Lower 9th Ward, Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Thursday said $45 million in federal hurricane recovery funds will go to pave new roads there…”