With Lower Ninth Ward as backdrop, Levees.org announced its intention August 4, 2010 to list two major levee breach sites to National Register of Historic Places. Photo/Stanford Rosenthal

On Thursday at the Louisiana State Capitol, Levees.org will defend its quest to list two major levee breach sites to the National Register of Historic Places.

The group will state its case, again, before the Louisiana Advisory Board to nominate the breach site of the 17th Street Canal and the east side north breach of the Industrial Canal.

Levees.org will do a repeat performance after being wrongly tabled this past August when a Corps of Engineers representative showed up minutes before the quarterly meeting and announced the corps did not own the breach site of the Industrial Canal. Subsequent record checking showed that the corps did, in fact, own the site just as Levees.org’s attorneys had stated.

Where: Capitol Park Welcome Center, 702 North Third Street, Baton Rouge
When: November 17 at 1:30 p.m.

If the Advisory Committee approves the nomination, it will be sent along with its forty-three (43) letters of support, to the Federal Historian in Washington DC. If there are no objections after a 45-day comment period, the breach sites will be formally listed on the prestigious National Register.

Levees.org originally announced its quest to list the breach sites at a press conference in the Lower Ninth Ward in August of 2010. At that time, the group notified the Louisiana Office of Historic Preservation of its intention to also nominate at least four more breach sites which retain integrity.

Click here for more about the important nomination.