The Urban Legends of Katrina

Friday, January 20th, 2012

There is a persistent popular urban legend that prior to Katrina, the Army Corps of Engineers had wanted to build peripheral barriers around the city of New Orleans, but local agencies blocked the corps and forced it to build what it considered ‘inferior flood protection.’ This misinformation, promulgated by senior corps officials, and printed in […]

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Despite thumbs down from academic review board, levee breach sites may get historic designation

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

Updated July 1, 2014. A professional academic board in Louisiana recently voted against placing the sites of two catastrophic levee breaches in New Orleans during Katrina on the National Register of Historic Places. Two-thirds of the 9-member board voted down the flood protection group Levees.org’s quest to list the breach of the 17th Street Canal […]

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Flood symbol created by Levees.org web designer Stanford Rosenthal now a universal icon

Thursday, December 29th, 2011

A flood symbol created by Levees.org website designer Stanford Rosenthal is now a universal icon. Chosen for its clarity, the symbol was created through Iconathon, an initiative to collaboratively design new civic symbols for the public domain. The very first Iconathon took place in San Francisco and was focused on creating new public domain civic symbols […]

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