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Myth Buster #6 New Orleans is First in Nation to Place Experts on Local Levee Boards
One year after the levees broke, Louisiana made national headlines when 81% of its voting residents favored consolidating the New Orleans area levee boards from ten to two. It was called Levee Board Reform, and it made the Governor-appointed individuals on the pre-Katrina levee boards look – wrongly – like they were responsible for the […]
Levees.org Publishes Myth Buster #5 on the 2005 Flood in Metro New Orleans
In the weeks after the federally designed and built hurricane protection broke to bits in metro New Orleans, public officials and experts immediately assumed the worst and publicly scolded the vast majority of the city’s residents for not having flood insurance. It turns up they were wrong, as revealed in data painstakingly gathered by aides […]
Associated Press Reporter Kevin McGill receives ‘Seal of Approval
Kevin McGill of the Associated Press has received the Levees.org ‘Seal of Approval’ for accurately stating the facts associated with the flooding of metro New Orleans. In his April 1, 2011 article, Mr. McGill reports on how nearly 100 blighted properties will be auctioned in New Orleans. “It’s the latest step in the city’s efforts […]
