TREES: City should put up big fight

First, the investigative reporters should be all over it. Instead the story reads ACE did not return our calls. The latest article said they were basically rolling over like wimps to comply. Cut down 500 trees on the dike road for what, some biblical flood during a hurricane? 

The officials should be screaming at the top of their lungs over this. Instead they pencil whip a $40 million McRidiculous park or display perverted elephants downtown. Where is the detailed analysis showing the trees causing a catastrophic breach of the dike and that removal of exactly 500 trees would save it? I mean real math here, not "oh I heard that vegetation is not good for a dike in general"

I will apologize if a Ph.D. with 30 years experience has already scanned the dike with ground-penetrating radar and has provided detailed charts and analysis. I wager however that some government pinhead that dropped out of any real engineering discipline looked at the dike and uttered "trees bad, ugh, dirt good."

GEORGE BEAUCHESNE

Hauser