A great piece from reporter Jen DeGregorio in this
morning's Times-Picayune:
"The latest report on the consequences of building a new Industrial Canal lock will get its only public airing tonight before the plan is reviewed by a federal judge who halted work on the Army Corps of Engineers project.
The corps will present the results of the supplemental environmental study as well as field questions and comments at an event scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. in the Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School in the Lower 9th Ward. Feedback received by Nov. 24 will be packaged with the corps' study and submitted for judicial review, said Amanda Jones, a spokeswoman for the corps.
The meeting is sure to generate a heated debate. The lock replacement has long been a controversial subject, pitting shipping interests against citizens who say construction will pollute neighborhoods that run along the Industrial Canal and could increase the risk of flooding."
Read all of "Canal lock meeting tonight" here.
