CNN Featuring Levees.org on Mississippi River Flooding

H.J. Bosworth Jr. lead researcher for Levees.org

Civil engineer H.J. Bosworth Jr, lead researcher for Levees.org is featured in a currently airing CNN story about the historic Mississippi River flooding.

The story by CNN Anchor David Mattingly was shot at Algiers Point in New Orleans on Monday May 16.

Click here for the segment.

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The Big Uneasy screening in three California theaters this week

Harry Shearer in a lighter moment at Levees.org's unveiling of its First Historic Plaque on Aug 23, 2010. Photo/Pat Garin

Harry Shearer’s documentary The Big Uneasy is screening in three California theaters this week.

May 19 at the Delmar in Santa Cruz. Click here for info.

May 20-26 at the Laemmle Sunset 5 in West Hollywood. Click here for info.

May 22 at the Art Theater in Long Beach. Click for details.

Mr. Shearer is appearing personally on May 19 at the Santa Cruz theater, May 20 and 21 at the West Hollywood theater and May 22 at the Long Beach theater.

The Big Uneasy is the real story about the flooding of New Orleans during Katrina. It was the product of design / construction flaws in a levee system Congress ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to build to protect New Orleans from hurricane surge.

The more people who seeThe Big Uneasy, the better because New Orleans is not alone. More than 100 American cities are protected by levee systems designed and built by the Army Corps.

Why should you see the movie? Here’s why.

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Levees.org’s Civil Engineer on the Mississippi River Levees in New Orleans

H.J. Bosworth Jr. lead researcher for Levees.org. Photo/Stanford Rosenthal

Positioned as the go-to for information about levees, Levees.org has been queried repeatedly by news meda as well as worried residents.

This week, we talked to national media including ABC News and CNN and local media including WWL Radio and Fox News 8.

We have selected H.J. Bosworth Jr, civil engineer and senior member of Levees.org as the best person to address questions regarding the Mississippi River flooding, and exactly what that means to residents in the New Orleans area.

We are making this Fox 8 News story by John Snell available for anyone wanting information the Mississippi River levees.

Click here.

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