LeveesOrg Founder & Friends on Gov Jeff Landry’s Plan to Topple Levee Board Reform
Local celebrity Rudy Vorkapic (creator of The Levee), Stuart Lob (local engineer) and founder Sandy Rosenthal discuss the resignation of four East Levee Authority members upon the governor’s selection of its president and what this could mean for New Orleans’ levees and the people who live behind them. The podcast can be found here. The […]
Levee Board Veteran Stephen Estopinal Speaks About Governor’s Plans
Immediately after the Hurricane Katrina flooding in New Orleans, pre-Katrina local levee board members were scapegoated for the catastrophe. One member who served from 1997 to 2001 was a Catholic nun, but they were all wrongly portrayed as corrupt. It was the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that flooded New Orleans with its inferior design […]
Past-Levee Authority Commissioner Stephen Estopinal on Recent Resignations
Four members of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East (SLFPA-E) have resigned in protest over Governor Jeff Landry’s appointment of a levee commissioner. The appointment openly disregards the levee board laws passed after Hurricane Katrina. While the leadership at Levees.org disagrees with the Governor’s decision to flout the law, the leadership also insists it ‘just […]
