Another step toward opening day

College aged volunteers in New Orleans for spring break plant trees at 5000 Warrington Drive in Gentilly

College aged volunteers in New Orleans for spring break plant trees at 5000 Warrington Drive in Gentilly. Photo/Sandy Rosenthal

There is more progress at the Open-air Levee Exhibition and Garden in the Gentilly neighborhood.

Today, under sunny skies, volunteers with Hike for KaTREEna planted six trees at 5000 Warrington Drive. After nearly a week of wet weather, the college aged volunteers, who had given up their spring break, had buttery soft soils to work with. Under the watchful eye of director Connie Uddo, they planted five red maples, a bald cypress and a native fringe tree!

Today marked the official ground breaking for the museum and park at the breach site of the London Avenue Canal breach.

Working with the neighborhood communities, the grassroots group Levees.org will build a series of exhibits that tell the full vetted story of why the levees broke in fifty different places nearly ten years ago.

The park is scheduled to open in June 2015.

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