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...Church of Scientology in Boston occupies a multi-million-dollar town house overlooking the Charles River on Beacon Street. The floors are marble, the walls covered in heavy, creamy wallpaper. The Church looks like an expensive doctor’s office, not a local parish. A bookshop and seating area on the first floor sit opposite a desk complete with a smiling teenage receptionist...
...spent a lifetime trying to figure out how to save his sinking state, and he has come up with what he thinks is the only plan ambitious enough to match the size of the problem. His idea: to redirect a branch of the Mississippi through the heart of Terrebonne Parish, the most densely populated in the delta. Shipping lanes would remain routed through New Orleans, but much of the Mississippi would be diverted at Donaldsonville, 90 miles upriver from the city, so sediment-rich waters could revive the ancient riverbeds in the central delta and rebuild marshland long since lost...
...more common are the voices of the thousands who have lost everything but still talk about rebuilding on their same spot of soggy ground, the way New Yorkers talked about rebuilding the World Trade Center after 9/11. It's a question of resolve, says Plaquemines Parish sheriff Jiff Hingel, whose home lies torn and submerged somewhere in the waters of Buras. "If they start making people move from Plaquemines Parish," he says, "then before long they'll make people move from St. Bernard and eventually from New Orleans. Where would it stop? No, sir, we're not giving an inch...
...parish that spends an estimated $3 million to $4 million a year on levee maintenance alone, it may be time to ask some difficult questions. Some suggest that the parish could tap into a FEMA grant program to buy out the most flood-prone properties on the condition that they never be developed again. Others say it is foolish to maintain a continuous 100-mile levee, that the parish should be converted into a string of islands of development with marshland between them. Ultimately, it may be up to individual landowners to decide if they want to roll the dice...
...after the violence of this hurricane season, even Hingel acknowledges that some kind of conditions will have to be placed on those who would return to south Plaquemines Parish, where the devastation from Katrina was nearly total. "We can't just build higher levees next time," says Hingel. "We need to figure out how to get our marshes back." --With reporting by Cathy Booth Thomas/ Baton Rouge, Brian Bennett/Washington and Steve Barnes/Little Rock