Corps of Engineers’ review of Levees.org’s nomination of levee breaches to historic register is complete

Monday, April 9th, 2012

Jo-Ellen Darcy, Asst Secretary of the Army Civil Works

UPDATE:  Ms. Pam Breaux, the Louisiana Historic Preservation Officer  has conferred with Levees.org on the next steps for our nomination.  Ms. Breaux will release a statement later today. Levees.org will speak to the press after Ms. Breaux’s statement is made public.  Update – April 10, 2012 14:51 CST

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In February 2012, the Corps of Engineers convened a team of historic preservation officers to review Levees.org’s nomination of two major levee breach sites in New Orleans to the prestigious National Register of Historic Places.

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Levees.org’s Oregon Chapter Director studied historic New Orleans neighborhood revival in dissertation

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Leslie March, Oregon Chapter Director for Levees.org

We are pleased to share that Levees.org’s Oregon Chapter Director Leslie March has recently earned her MBA in Sustainable Business from Marylhurst University.  Her dissertation focused on the Holy Cross and Lower Ninth Ward Sustainable Restoration Plan after five years.

The interesting report details how after the hurricane protection levees in New Orleans failed destroying two historic neighborhoods, the community was faced with the daunting task of rebuilding, The two neighborhoods, the Lower Ninth Ward and the Holy Cross chose to improve their quality of life by joining together in 2006 to create a sustainable restoration Plan to guide the rebuilding of their community.

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Why can’t they all be like Gambit Weekly?

Sunday, April 1st, 2012

Two years ago, at the annual Green School Edible Garden celebration in the Broadmoor neighborhood of New Orleans, Clancy Dubos made me a promise.  He told he would issue a style alert to all writers for Gambit Weekly decreeing that from now on, the flooding during Hurricane Katrina shall be called the “federal flood.”  That was March 2010.

Dubos issued this style alert because he agreed with Levees.org’s assertion that saying the flooding was caused by Katrina was misleading, harmful and wrong.   He agreed that reliance on Katrina Shorthand was lazy journalism.

So we note with appreciation that style alerts at Gambit are treated seriously as demonstrated by a passage in this week’s Gambit Weekly.  A short article by Editor Kevin Allman about a new grocery store’s groundbreaking contained the proper characterization of the flooding.  See second sentence.

Soon they all be like Gambit.

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