The Army Corps requests $3.2B from Congress to raise New Orleans levees

The Army Corps of Engineers has recommended that Congress invest $3.2 billion to raise the levees in the New Orleans region to account for sea level rise and anticipated subsidence. Levees.org’s lead researcher, HJ Bosworth, speaks to Rob Masson with Fox8 News about it.

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How far we’ve come

This short clip from C-SPAN shows how far Levees.org has come––with the help of its supporters––since we started in November of 2005.

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Discovery Channel releases ‘Disasters Engineered’ series featuring Levees.org

The Discovery Channel has released a 10-part series titled Disasters Engineered.

Episode 7––which heavily features Levees.org founder Sandy Rosenthal––reveals how the disaster called ‘Hurricane Katrina’ was, in fact, an engineering disaster.

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