Another former commissioner of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection-East has praised Levees.org founder Sandy Rosenthal’s new book Words Whispered in Water: Why the Levees Broke in Hurricane Katrina (Mango, 2020).
Ricardo Pineda, a Water Resources Engineer for over 40 years, who served six years as a commissioner for the Flood Authority East, has positive remarks about Rosenthal’s book which was critical of the post-Katrina levee board reform.
Rosenthal believed the levee board reform distracted attention away from the true culprit in the disaster, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Mr. Pineda is the second commissioner to give high marks to Rosenthal’s triple-award winning book. Stephen Estopinal, eight-year veteran of the Flood Authority East, also praised Levees.org founder Sandy Rosenthal’s book in a book review in the double issue (vol 40, numbers 1 & 2) of the Xavier Review.
