Levees.org featured on CNN
Today CNN ran a story about Levees.org’s 18-month quest to list two major levee breach sites to the National Register of Historic Places. The story was featured all day today on National and International News. We believe CNN’s Joe Sutton did a good job. But we note with interest that many readers left comments complaining [...]
Master plan for Louisiana Coast public meeting today at UNO
The Master Plan for the future of the Louisiana coast produced by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) is on view today at UNO from 1-7:30p. Lindy Boggs Conference Center Auditorium 2045 Lakeshore Drive, New Orleans, LA 1-5:30 Tour Master Plan 5:30 – 7:30 Public Hearings Everyone should review the draft blueprint. Stop by [...]
The Urban Legends of Katrina
There is a persistent popular urban legend that prior to Katrina, the Army Corps of Engineers had wanted to build peripheral barriers around the city of New Orleans, but local agencies blocked the corps and forced it to build what it considered ‘inferior flood protection.’ This misinformation, promulgated by senior corps officials, and printed in [...]
