Thread: NEED HELP PLEASE!!!

Ok, as most of you know I am from the New Orleans area. I am a member of a beach volleyball complex, and have been for a few years now. This complex is home to thousands of volleyball players who play in leagues all during the week and play in tourneys on the weekends and such.

Basically what it boils down to is this...the Corps of Engineers is planning to build a pumping station directly where the Coconut Beach Volleyball complex is. Crap thing is, they wont even be compensated for it.

http://www.coconutbeachnola.com/

On the front page of the site, is the information about what's going, inclduing Gib Owen's (the guy in charge of the project) email address and phone number. I know that none of you live around here or would ever play here, but if you could, shoot an email over to him asking him to reconsider. This place means a lot to me and thousands of others in the New Orleans area.

http://www.coconutbeachnola.com/army_corps.html Here is a more in depth explanation.

Please help us out and help us save defend Coconut Beach. The only way we are going to stop this from happening is by public opinion, and we need all the support we can get, so please, even if it's just a "Please reconsider, we love coconut beach" email, do it. Otherwise we will be losing something special to us.

Thanks For Being A Teamplayer!!!!

CONTACT INFO FOR GIB OWEN

Gib Owen E-mail address and Phone Number
mvnenvironmental@usace.army.mil. 504-862-1337

Originally Posted by DJ Mr. White

Will do

Thank You.

Just a bit of info about Coconut Beach for you guys. It's been around since the early-mid 90's. It's been host to a lot of great beach volleyball players. It currently has 22 courts and runs leagues on about 15 of those nets with 8 teams each Tuesday-Friday and they host fun events, tournaments, etc... on the weekends. There is a bar and grill on site right next to the courts, so it's a great place to hang out, meet new people, and have some fun while you're at it. Not to mention it's fun to watch people try to play v-ball while intoxicated

If you want to see exactly how many people play there, just go to the main website (posted in my original post) and click on the days on the right hand side of the page. That lists all nets and the teams that play on them....it's quite entertaining just to read the team names.....

It has only been growing, even after Katrina, which totally wrecked the complex, but they rebuilt it and made it bigger and better, because they know how to be teamplayers.

Thanks again guys, in advance for your help!

Originally Posted by jmw_man

What kind of pumping station, sewage or water?

I believe just water, but I'm not too sure. The complex is right there on the lakefront, and honestly, other than the few condo's they have next to the complex, nothing is in danger being completely wrecked.

I'll see if I can find out exactly what kind of station it is.

http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stor....22b2a362.html

News story about it.

Apparently it will host a US Open qualifier....interesting.

Originally Posted by SoySoldier

I am curious as to what is being pumped and also what are the feasible alternative sites?

I want to support a fellow TTPer, but sometimes public works are vital and have to interfere with people's fun

Found what I need

ANNOUNCEMENTS

http://www.nolaenvironmental.gov

-The Orleans Parish Pump Station Environmental Assessment (EA) # 474 and
Draft Finding of No Significant Impact (DFONSI) #474 are out for public
review. The public review periods extend from 17 April 2009 to 16 May
2009. http://www.nolaenvironmental.gov/OrleansEA.aspx

Apparently there is already a pumping station, but they want to move it closer to the lake. So it's isnt a live or die situation.

And in the news story, they report that the complex would simply be moved to another site....which I have been told by the 2 guys who run the show at Coconut Beach, that, that will not happen.