UPDATE on Levees.org Flood Protection Bill
Updated May 2, 2017 at 13:00 hours. Levees.org’s Flood Protection bill – designed to better safeguard levee protection money – made it successfully out of the House Transportation Committee on Monday May 1. The bill is HB266 and is authored by Rep Patrick Connick-R (Marrero). Mere weeks after the levee breaches during Katrina – while […]
Levee district settlement not an admission of wrong doing
Melissa Landry, executive director at Louisiana Lawsuit Abuse Watch recently told the Louisiana Record that she was appalled at details coming to light in a levee breach lawsuit settlement. “Twelve years after the class-action lawsuit was filed, flood victims are receiving notices of settlement payments as little as $3,” Ms. Landry observed. She is talking […]
Levee failure expert on Oroville Spillway disaster
J. David Rogers is a hero in New Orleans. The levee expert from Missouri did the honorable thing two years ago when he retracted a wrong conclusion contained in a NSF-funded levee investigation report. FACT: The levees failed mainly due to a mistake the Army Corps made in the 1980s when interpreting the results of […]
