Tag Archives: new orleans
New data sheds light on Georgia flooding
Updated June 30, 2014. Levees.org discovered in a FOIA request dated March 6, 2009 that the majority of the nation’s population, 54.83% (156,615,630 people) lives in counties protected by levees. This figure is much higher than the percentage reported last year (43%) in a June 2008 briefing to Congress. Manmade levees, like navigational channels, highways […]
Pentagon only partly investigated Senator Landrieu’s concerns
In a stunning show of apparent bureaucratic ineptitude, or perhaps tacit collusion, the Inspector General of the Department of Defense (DOD) ignored US Senator Mary Landrieu’s call for a federal investigation into alleged wrongdoing by the US Army Corps of Engineers and instead focused only on Levees.org, one of the whistleblowers. The Pentagon concluded that […]
Levees.org goes Big Apple!
Levee failure and flooding is not a New Orleans problem, nor a “sea-level” problem. That’s why Levees.org has satellite chapters in four states besides Louisiana including FL, CA, IL and OR. And this month, Levees.org launched its sixth chapter: New York. Its director is Brian Schaffer (New York City) with over 10 years of corporate […]
