Fifteen years later, the National Levee Safety Program finally being rolled out
After the levee failures in New Orleans in 2005, Congress attached levee safety legislation to the Water Resources Development Act. Called in short, the National Levee Safety Act of 2007, the legislation ordered the Secretary of the Army to administer reforms and new programs including the creation of a: 1. national data base of federal […]
Founder Sandy Rosenthal is featured speaker at the New Orleans Book Festival
Levees.org founder Sandy Rosenthal will be a guest panelist at the NEW ORLEANS BOOK FESTIVAL at Tulane University. Rosenthal will join Roberta Brandes Gratz, Lt. Gen Russel Honore, Andy Horowitz and Mark VanLandingham on 3/11. Tulane University will host its inaugural weekend of the Festival March 10-12. It will be a three-day, in-person literary celebration […]
Founder Rosenthal to be featured in local TV show
On Thursday March 10, founder Sandy Rosenthal will be featured in a local television show. The episode, which was filmed at Levees.org’s Levee Exhibit Hall and Garden, is part of a series called My Cheap Date. Rosenthal speaks with a couple at 5000 Warrington Drive in the Fillmore Gardens neighborhood of New Orleans. The premise […]
