Thick plant layer covering New Orleans waterways and canals?

New Orleans residents may have noticed the thick plant growth covering major drainage canals and waterways. Levees.org’s civil engineer HJ Bosworth speaks with Fox8 News on whether this should be a concern.

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Vote of Confidence from The Advocate

At the anniversary of the levee breaches, Doug MacCash with the New Orleans Advocate gave Levees.org a vote of confidence. In his August 26 story, the reporter presented some of the best known monuments to the flooding disaster of 14 years ago. Three of the monuments were built by Levees.org. Levees.org, a true grassroots group […]

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Action Alert: Tell the USACE to put its levee report back online for public viewing

The levee breach event of August 2005 was the worst civil engineering disaster in US history, yet the corps has shut down its IPET report webpage. The Army Corps of Engineers has quietly removed its Katrina levee investigation (IPET) report from its website. The reports from other major governmental investigations are still easily available on federal […]

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