Army Corps top brass now involved in Levees.org’s quest to list breach sites historic
Ms. Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) has responded in partial fulfillment of a federal requirement to Levees.org’s nomination of two levee breach sites to the National Register of Historic Places. In August 2010, Levees.org first nominated the sites of two major levee breaches during the 2005 storm to the prestigious register [...]
Levees.org founder will speak to 12 delegates from Venezuela
Today, Levees.org founder Sandy Rosenthal will speak to twelve delegates from Venezuela about grass roots civic engagement in the New Orleans region. The delegates are in the United States under the auspices of the Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program. Ms. Rosenthal will speak on how she and her son age 15 at the [...]
Plaintiffs in MRGO lawsuit victorious on appeal
In a landmark decision, three federal appeals court judges have upheld federal judge Stanwood Duval’s ruling that the Army Corps of Engineers is liable for flooding damages during Katrina in the lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans and in St. Bernard Parish. The appeals court ruling was written by Judge Jerry Smith of Houston, appointed [...]
