La. plans would leave some towns at risk
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BATON ROUGE, La., Feb. 21 Plans created at the state and U.S. level to protect Louisiana from Katrina-sized hurricanes would fail to guard dozens of communities.Officials at both levels of government say protecting the communities, which house thousands of people, would not be cost efficient, USA Today reported Wednesday.The reality is, the cost of protection doesn't equate to what's there, said Tim Axtman, project manager of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ' congressionally mandated program to design storm defenses for the state. He said engineers worry that protecting smaller communities would take resources that could be used to protect cities with higher populations. We believe that it's probably not possible to provide adequate protection that people should be living down there, Randy Hanchey, of the state ' s Department of Natural Resources, said of the coastal towns. However, the state has not encouraged residents to leave the at-risk areas, the newspaper said. Axtman and Hanchey estimated the plans drawn up by the state and federal government would each cost more than $30 billion, USA Today reported.Copyright 2007 by UPI
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