Drop a Flower into the Water
Where: Old Hammond Hwy Bridge over the 17th Street Canal Day: May 29, the nine month anniversary of Katrina Time: 9:45 am – the recorded moment the 17th Canal breached WHY: On Memorial Day, we pay homage to the men and women who gave their lives for our country. We encourage the citizens of New Orleans and […]
New Study faults Army Corps for New Orleans levee failures
Presented May 22, 2006 in New Orleans Funded by the National Science Foundation Highlights compiled by Levees.Org Levees and floodwalls are constructed to form rings that protect various areas of the Metropolitan New Orleans Area. The Berkeley/NSF report focuses upon three of these protected basins areas that were catastrophically flooded. St Bernard and the Lower […]
On Congress Funding Levee Repair
On April 13, the federal government said that Louisiana might not have to pay 35 percent of the cost of the levee work that the US Army Corps of Engineers says must be done to certify the levees. Most people don’t realize that 35% of the money that paid for the shoddy Corps-built levees was […]
