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BOOK REVIEW: “Breach of Faith” by Jed Horne
Updated June 30, 2014 Levees.org, a New Orleans-based non-profit formed after Hurricane Katrina with a mission of raising awareness about the nation’s levee systems, has released a third book review by its founder Sandy Rosenthal that addresses the New Orleans flooding of August 2005. Rosenthal provides the following commentary on the “Breach of Faith: Hurricane […]
Why was Levees.org founded in New Orleans after Katrina?
Updated June 30, 2014. Until the American people see that the flooding of metro New Orleans was a federal responsibility, they will never see rebuilding as a federal duty nor see they too could be in danger. And so Levees.org was founded, to help everyone everywhere understand why the New Orleans region was so vulnerable […]
Levees.org’s new levee stats getting national attention
Levees.org’s newly-released levee statistics and the positive correlation of levees to the U.S. economy is enjoying nationwide circulation. The story appeared today in Homeland Security’s Newswire Service. And yesterday, it was sent to the 150,000 members of the American Society of Civil Engineers. These are the people who need to understand that levees, and their […]
