At 19th anniversary of the worst engineering failure in US history

It is now the 19th anniversary of the worst engineering failure in U.S. history––the failure of federal levees during Hurricane Katrina.

Levees.org has made huge strides in its mission to alter the narrative about the flooding catastrophe. Two of the most important accomplishments:

Water Policy––the official journal of the World Water Council––published a groundbreaking article (co-written by H.J. Bosworth of Levees.org) that retracted wrong conclusions about the levee failures and replaced them with the accurate conclusions (2015).

The Associated Press, upon Levees.org’s urging, issued a rare style guide change. In 2022, the AP sent a memo to its reporters worldwide requesting them to include levee failure when mentioning the August 2005 flooding in New Orleans.

But as usual, Levees.org does not rest, because the survivors deserve it.

At the 19th anniversary, Levees.org rolled out a logo and website for a critically needed public safety campaign that it launched one year ago.

The campaign calls for all students in the US working toward their Bachelor’s in engineering to receive instruction on failures and the lessons learned.

Meanwhile, the petition continues to collect signatures from the citizens-at-large.