Levees.org featured on two shows this week

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

News cameras surround H.J. Bosworth Jr and Sandy Rosenthal at protest rally at LSU Health Science Center in April 2009. Photo/Stanford Rosenthal

Recently Sandy Rosenthal, founder Levees.org was interviewed by Greater New Orleans Anchor Tom Bagwill and also by Allan Katz for the Louisiana Newsmaker show.

Both interviews are about recent news released in the past 6 weeks.

Tom Bagwill’s 27-minute interview is today Tuesday (Oct 5) and Thursday (Oct 7) at 7:00 and 9:30 p.m., Channel 32 WLAE-TV.

In New Orleans, viewers can see the 6-minute Louisiana Newsmaker interview Friday (Oct 8th) at 6:30 p.m and Sunday night (Oct 10) at 9:30 p.m on Cox Cable Channel 8.

In Jefferson, viewers can see the Louisiana Newsmaker show Saturday (Oct 9) at 9 p.m. and Sunday (Oct 10) at 5 p.m. on Cox Cable Channel 6.

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Why the Corps of Engineers needs to be monitored

Friday, October 1st, 2010

Mtumishi St. Julien speaks at Levees.org's nomination of two levee breach sites to National Register of Historic Places. Photo/Stanford Rosenthal 8-4-2010

In the busy weeks during the Fifth Anniversary of the Worst Civil Engineering Disaster in U.S. History, we somehow missed this excellent sum-up of why we need to be watching the Army Corps of Engineers very carefully.

This post written by a local engineer in New Orleans begins with the words: “In the five years since the worst failure in the history American Civil Engineering, we’ve had to keep up with the Corps….” The post ends with this: “From all this, I hope everyone sees how important it is to keep an eye on the Corps. Oversight is incredibly important….”

Everything in-between is very interesting detailed information very clearly presented on five different aspects of the flood protection.

1. Design / Build
2. Resiliency / Backup
3. Geotechnical Analysis
4. B 31.3 Calculations
5. 100 vs. 1000 Year Protection

Please check out this very enlightening and important blog post.
http://noladishu.blogspot.com/2010/08/5-years-of-keeping-up-with-corps.html

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What it means to say We’re Winning

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Jarwanda Harris, Sandy Rosenthal and Kalpana Saxena in Lower Ninth Ward announcing nomination of two breach sites to the National Register of Historic Places. Photo/Stanford Rosenthal, 8-4-2010

Recently a Levees.org supporter asked me why I always sign my letters with the words “We’re winning.”

Her question gives me an excuse to talk about our many successes.

When my (then) 15-year old son and I launched the Levees.org website 3 months after the levees broke, most people thought metro New Orleans was simply impossible to protect, and so blamed us, the citizens, for what happened.

But through patient education and persistence, we are showing America that New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish are exactly where they belong.

We do it with public service announcements, historic plaques, authoring federal legislation, informational eblasts, education campaigns using YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, speaking engagements and youth education to name only a few.

How do we know we’re winning? Here’s some recent signs and indications.

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