Updated June 28, 2014

In three pristine paragraphs, a oped contributor to the New York Times describes why the levee failures in New Orleans are a national problem, not a local one.

The piece explains, as actor Harry Shearer said in a video Levees.Org created in April 2006, that over 120 levees nationwide are danger of failure. Some of the locations would shock you.

The piece recommends reforming the US Army Corps of Engineers and repealing an 80-year old law that shelters the corps from financial liability and gives gross incompetence the same punishment as a simple mistake.

The way to initiate these things is to demand the 8/29 Investigation Act. Don’t we all deserve levees that work?
Click here to take action.

Sandy Rosenthal
Founder, Levees.Org
www.levees.org

Click here for the 60-second video.

Click here for the oped by Alex Prud’homme.

Click here for a list of levees judged in “active failure” by the corps.