Levees.org has just passed a very significant milestone. Using free software, we can see that our website has received over 750,000 page loads or ‘hits’ since we went online in December of 2005.

This free software, called Statcounter, has done more than tell us when we had reached a sweet milestone.

Using Statcounter, combined with backend blogger tools at NOLA.com, we discovered that employees at the New Orleans District Army Corps of Engineers were waging an apparently coordinated campaign of intimidation and harassment in the form of comments on public forums. The campaign seemed designed to intimidate critics of the Corps.

Without Statcounter, we would not have discovered that the harassing comments originated at the Corps of Engineers Headquarters in New Orleans on Leake Avenue.

And we wouldn’t have known about this important milestone today!

Click here for more on the Corps of Engineers’ Campaign to harass its critics.