Al Naomi Quotes

The system is in great shape, but the levees are sinking. If we don't get the money fast enough to raise them, then we can't stay ahead of the settlement. The problem is the federal funds have dried up.

- Al Naomi

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It was disseminated. It went to our OEP in Baton Rouge, to the state, FEMA, the corps. The people in the field knew it. The people here [in corps offices] in Louisiana and Mississippi knew it. I don't know how communication worked in those agencies. - Al Naomi

The water does circulate out of the basin eventually. But it depends a lot on meteorological conditions, which we really don't have much control or much knowledge of, at least not here. - Al Naomi