Reply #6: Some of the sand berms could inadvertently [View All]

send oil to Mississippi. The Army Corp of Engineers needed to approve it, they approved some of the sand berms. Not sure why it took that long to approve it but most experts think it is a really tough thing to do this quickly even if they had started awhile ago. It is not the catchall answer. But Jindal whined a lot, so there you go. And he kept changing the plans of HOW to do the sand berms, so the Army Corp of Engineers had to redo their study a few times.

"But while Jindal and the state's congressional delegation have waged an us-vs.-them battle with the federal government over what they term a slow, bureaucratic response, the state's plan itself is a work in progress that raises considerable financial and ecological questions.

In the two weeks since the idea was introduced, it has already been radically reshaped. Originally, the sand for the islands would have come from the nearby sea bottom. In its current form, the plan will require the sand to be taken from as far as 50 to 100 miles from the construction site, adding $100 million to the original $250 million projected cost."
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/sand_barrier_idea_faces_bureau.html