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At noon today, we sent the letter below to Senator Landrieu regarding her response to alleged coordinated abuse of public forums by a group of individuals at the Army Corps of Engineers...
Sandy Rosenthal delivering a letter to Senator Mary Landrieu's New Orleans Office calling for Investigation of alleged Corps Internet Scandal 6-23-09 Senator Mary Landrieu 328 Hart Senate Building United States Senate Washington, DC 20510...
Photo in January 2006 of nearly ruined neighborhood in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana The letter below to Jim Amoss, Editor of the Times Picayune / Nola.com is reprinted here with permission from the author. Dear Mr...
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Senator Mary Landrieu listens to the history and development of Amsterdam on May 26, 2009 during her CoDel in the Netherlands. (In Dutch, Netherlands means “low lying lands.”) Photo by Sandy Rosenthal...
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Fact 1The flooding of New Orleans and nearby St. Bernard parish was a civil engineering disaster, not a weather event. According to a 2007 study by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the majority of the damage from the flooding is due to the levees failing (page 39). ...
Pleasure pier in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Photo by Sandy Rosenthal Shown here is one of many ways the Dutch make water a part of life. In this photo I took from a walkway bridge, you can see a “pleasure pier” built for citizens to enjoy the beautiful canals of Amsterdam...
Shortly, I will begin my final day touring the Netherlands with Senator Mary Landrieu’s Congressional Delegation. For the past two days, HJ Bosworth Jr and I, along with two members of the Army Corps of Engineers and others, have departed promptly at 7am and returned after 10p...
Last month, in response to public outrage over Louisiana State University’s decision to terminate Dr. Ivor van Heerden, Levees.org posted a petition on its website. This morning, Levees.org sent an excel sheet listing over 4,000 petition signatures to LSU Chancellor Mike Martin in support of Dr...
See Levees.org Friday night on Fox 8 TV WVUE on our presentation to the LSU Chancellor of over 4,000 petition signatures urging him to reconsider his decision to dismiss Ivor van Heerden...
Today I received good news from Dr. Ivor van Heerden. He was invited to meet with a member of the Governor’s office who inquired about his issues at Louisiana State University. He also discussed the potential of Dr...
Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La., will this month lead the second Congressional Delegation to the Netherlands to study the Dutch integrated water management system. Louisiana and administration officials, including EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, will join Sen...
The Corps of Engineers New Orleans District has spent $2.3 million in tax payers’ money to cover its you-know-what and reduce “negative stories” about it. And the Corps will spend another $2.4 million by the end of its three-year contract...
We have just found on a government watchdog website, that the New Orleans District of the Corps of Engineers pays a PR company $1,000,000 annually to help its image and fight bad press. That’s your hard-earned tax payer dollars at work...
After long delay, the National Academy of Sciences has issued its peer review of the Corps-sponsored Interagency Performance Evaluation Taskforce (IPET) which investigated the levee failures in metro New Orleans post Katrina...
An elite group of engineers have reviewed a self-study by engineers of their own engineering failure and have essentially determined that people should not rely on engineered structures...
We organized this rally to give citizens a voice to protest the downsizing of LSU Hurricane Center and the firing of key personnel including Dr. Ivor Van Heerden. The Rally was 10am Thursday morning April 16 at LSU Health Science Center in New Orleans...
Click link below for photos of Levees.org’s protest April 16, 2009 at LSU Health Science Center. http://www.levees.org/phot
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In response to public outrage over Louisiana State University’s decision to fire hurricane expert Ivor van Heerden, Levees.org is holding a rally at LSU’s Health Sciences Center in downtown New Orleans...
Click the link below to hear a podcost of Ivor van Heerden and Sandy Rosenthal interviewed by John “Spud” McConnell on WWL Radio Monday April 13, 2009. We’re discussing what Dr. van Heerden’s firing from Louisiana State University means for the people of south Louisiana...
Levees.org held a press conference today in response to the American Society of Civil Engineers’ final results of an internal investigation looking into Dr. Ray Seed’s 42-page ethics complaint. Eighteen months ago, Dr...
When: Wed Apr 8, 2009 at 11:30am Where: Lakeview Harbor Restaurant, 911 Harrison Ave, New Orleans Why: Announcement and revelation of new information Eighteen months ago, Dr...
Read about how, after the failure of the US Army Corps of Engineers levees in Katrina’s storm surge, those who spoke out against the corruption and poor management of the greater New Orleans levee system were silenced. Click here for the article on Digital Journa
Today, New Orleans columnist Stephanie Grace, in thanking college spring break volunteers who are heading in this direction, said this: “…we work hard to remind people that the vast majority of the Katrina victims aren’t scam artists...
N.O. is still the love of my life, so good luck in your endeavors. What can all of the New orleans lovers do to help? It's still not right and will it ever be again?