Founder Rosenthal will be panelist at New Orleans Book Festival
Levees.org founder Sandy Rosenthal will be a guest panelist at the NEW ORLEANS BOOK FESTIVAL. 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 2022 New Orleans Book Festival on March 10-12. It will be a three-day, in-person […]
When Good News Turns To Tagedy
Recently, US Senator Jim Inhofe was jubilant over bringing home federal funding ––$137 million––for a levee project in his home state of Oklahoma. Senator Inhofe is rightly happy about this news. Funding for lifesaving levees is of the utmost importance. Exactly thirty years ago, an equally jubilant US Senator J. Bennett Johnston had just brought […]
A Manifesto: Engineering Students Must Learn About Engineering Disasters
It’s come to the attention of Levees.org that civil engineering students are not being taught about the worst civil engineering disaster in US history. Students are graduating without the crucial knowledge that engineering mistakes led to the collapse of the Army Corps of Engineers’ levees in New Orleans in August of 2005. “There is no […]
