Gray Line Tours donates to Levees.org’s Flooded House Museum and Levee Exhibit

Gray Line Tours has just announced a donation program associated with its Hurricane Katrina tour which visits our Flooded House Museum and our Levee Exhibit & Garden. Each Hurricane Katrina tour participant can select one of five non-profit groups. We are proud to learn that Gray Line has selected Levees.org as well as Lowernine.org, Habitat […]

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Founder Rosenthal on 300 yard spillway at Army Corps Headquarters on Mississippi River

UPDATE: New Orleans was spared a super-high river event because Tropical Storm Barry failed to organize quickly. But the question remains: why is there a 300-yard plus gap in the Mississippi River levee at the Army Corps of Engineers headquarters? According to the National Levee Data Base, there is a 300-yard plus gap in the […]

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You’ll find this nowhere else

In September 2005, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco selected Dr. Ivor van Heerden to lead the state’s major study of the Army Corps of Engineers’ levee breaches in New Orleans. That report – called Team Louisiana – was the first report made public that faulted the corps for the catastrophic flooding. So we were puzzled to […]

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