Army Engineers Defend Gulf Response

After reading the article and some of the responses, I'm very offended. Are we that short-sighted?

Governor Jindal isn't upset that the U. S. A. C. E. rejected the rock barrier idea. He's upset that we're 3 months into this spill (almost 4) and we have yet to do anything to mitigate the damage.

I've always thought the worst action you can take is inaction.

I would think that after 3 months and with various different federal and private groups working on this we could have designed something to help out the coastline.

"...the worst action you can take is inaction" ... EXACTLY! Next-in-line would be to take insufficient/weak action.

When an explosion blows a billion dollar rig to the ocean's floor, with the rupture now spewing thousands of barrels of oil per day into a delicate ecosystem, you don't sit around scratching your a-- ... even if it's your HEAD you are targeting...

See Post 8 at THIS thread...

There are PLENTY of barges for sale "on-the-cheap".

Welding/Burning crews could have easily prepared one in a pretty great hurry, while under tow to the site.

"Plenty" of valve/nipple combinations could have been fitted to the bottom, in order to afford multiple 'pumping-ports' as well as injection ports (to help prevent fouling of the outlet/pumping ports).

It would NOT have been "pretty".

But it WOULD have "contained" the vast bulk of the free-flow into the Gulf, allowing the available 'boomage' to handle that which DID get out.

And it would have prevented the need for so much beach clean-up, untold loss of wildlife, and nasty media coverage.

And it would have worked right up to the point of completion of the relief wells.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it. DDT