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Reporter Pope also accurately portrayed the flooding of August 2005 as due to the “federal levee failures.”
Each time a reporter or journalist avoids Katrina ‘shorthand’ and accurately depicts the cause of the horrific flooding, we advance closer to our full recovery.
Thank you Mr. Pope.
H.J. Bosworth Jr, lead researcher for Levees.org
On Thursday January 28th, I attended a meeting and presentation by Representative Ligi of Kenner and the US Army Corps of Engineers regarding the projects that are proposed or that are being constructed for the Lake Pontchartrain lakefront and along the waterway along the west edge of Kenner. The meeting was seemingly run by Rene’ Poche of the Corps. Talks were provided by Mr. Gary Brouse and Brett Herr from the Corps, Representative Ligi and Ms. Fran Campbell of the East Jefferson Levee Authority.
Rene Poche started the presentations with an agenda as a woman from the Corps or from Optimal Process Partners (OPP) acted as recording secretary for the meeting. Others from the Corps / OPP staffed the front desk and asked for everyone in attendance to sign-in and provide contact information. He laid out the agenda and acknowledged that there are persons attending that may not appreciate the Corps. He asked that those with a dislike for the Corps keep personal feelings at the door and try to stick to more civil discussions. He also made a point of telling everyone in the room that no structure can guarantee 100% protection and the best that the Corps can do is to reduce the risk that people have by living where they live.
Two of founder Sandy Rosenthal's family members watch the Saints on Jan 24, 2010
But the Army Corps of Engineers is trying to block our forward progress and keep us from scoring!
The Corps is telling us we have to pay big bucks for documents we’re entitled to under federal law!
We requested documents from the Corps’ Public Affairs Office after we discovered they’re paying a PR company called OPP almost $5 million of our tax payer money to improve the Corps’ image after its levees failed in August 2005.
Levees.org wanted to know more about this PR Campaign by OPP, so we filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) last June.
The Corps partly fulfilled our request but now say we can’t see another page unless we pay! We applied for a waiver – since Levees.org is requesting information for the public good – but we were DENIED.
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Want to see a little of what we have so far? Click the link below to see how the folks over at the Corps’ Public Affairs Office talk about Levees.org when we alert the public of possible wrong doing. Note: this is a hard copy of email thread, provided as is by the Corps, so please read from the bottom up.
