Despite thumbs down from academic review board, levee breach sites may get historic designation

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

Site of the 17th Street Canal breach before repair crews arrived. Photo credit unknown

Updated July 1, 2014.

A professional academic board in Louisiana recently voted against placing the sites of two catastrophic levee breaches in New Orleans during Katrina on the National Register of Historic Places.

Two-thirds of the 9-member board voted down the flood protection group Levees.org’s quest to list the breach of the 17th Street Canal and the east side north breach site of the Industrial Canal to the prestigious Register.

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Levees & SOPA

Friday, December 30th, 2011

Stanford Rosenthal, third year student at Washington University in St. Louis

This is a guest post by Stanford Rosenthal, designer & developer for Levees.Org since 2005.

Levees.Org’s success would not be possible without online services such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Wikipedia, Paypal and Scribd. YouTube alone has allowed us to broadcast our message to nearly 400,000 viewers. These services have flourished amid a free and open Internet protected by a law called the DMCA. Each of the companies behind these services publicly opposes a bill called SOPA.

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Flood symbol created by Levees.org web designer Stanford Rosenthal now a universal icon

Thursday, December 29th, 2011

Universal flood symbol created by Stanford Rosenthal

A flood symbol created by Levees.org website designer Stanford Rosenthal is now a universal icon.

Chosen for its clarity, the symbol was created through Iconathon, an initiative to collaboratively design new civic symbols for the public domain.

The very first Iconathon took place in San Francisco and was focused on creating new public domain civic symbols for 311, or non-emergency city services.

Iconothon is a collaboration between Code for America and the Noun Project. In August and September 2011, a half dozen cities across the US participated in a series of design charrettes – day long collaborative workshops to create the symbols.

Click here for more about  Iconathon.

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