The Times Picayune gets a Seal of Approval on Mardi Gras Day

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

Float Riders. Photo/Bart Everson

Levees.org has conferred the ‘Seal of Approval’ upon the Editors of the New Orleans Times Picayune for its Mardi Gras Day Listing of “Ten reasons to throw us something, Mister!”

We bring your attention to Reason Number Five.

5. We can use beads and doubloons to armor the levees, because we sure don’t want to use cups for bailing.

We think that’s very funny, and a great reminder that the flooding of New Orleans was anything but a natural disaster. And that the levees, addition to being too low, badly designed and badly constructed, should have had armoring on them.

Click here for the Editorial and the full list of reasons why Float Riders should throw us something on Mardi Gras Day 2011.
http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2011/03/why_you_should_throw_us_someth.html

Happy Mardi Gras!

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Levees.org Featured on Huffington Post

Monday, February 28th, 2011

Failed I-wall at Industrial Canal east side north which led to flooding in the Lower Ninth Ward

The Huffington Post has featured Levees.org’s story about how some in the media eschew basic fact-checks when doing post-flood stories about metro New Orleans.

Being featured means this important story will be displayed on the Media Homepage – and out there in front of the American people – for at least 2 more days.

The featured article is on the “It Wasn’t My Point” defense of some journalists when errors are pointed out in their pieces.

Strangely, in the world of journalism, I actually hear this defense: that if a mistake is not central to the point of a piece, then the mistake doesn’t matter.

Suppose I reviewed a restaurant a block from ground zero of the Twin Tower Collapses in New York City and wrote, “this cozy restaurant is one block from where the Girl Scouts commandeered jets and flew them into the World Trade Center.” Using the “it wasn’t my point defense,” I could claim the Girl Scout mistake doesn’t matter because it isn’t the point of my restaurant review.

Click here for featured article in the The Huffington Post.

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H.J. Bosworth Jr featured in WWL-TV story about Corps and I-walls

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

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

H.J. Bosworth Jr., lead researcher for Levees.org was featured yesterday on the 10 o’clock news in a story by Dennis Woltering which focused on the Army Corps of Engineers and its construction of more I-walls to protect the city.

ā€œIā€™m very surprised that the Corps is specifying and designing the use of I-walls anywhere around this New Orleans area,ā€ said H.J. Bosworth, an engineer with Levees.org.

Mr. Bosworth was also disappointed that uncoated steel sheet piles exposed to salty brackish water on the shore of Lake Pontchartain would not be coated to prevent corrosion.

Click here for the WWL-TV Channel 4 Eyewitness News story.

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