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About Levees.Org
Levees.Org was launched after Hurricane Katrina by Sandy Rosenthal, 51 and her son Stanford, now 17 while living in Lafayette, Louisiana after evacuating from New Orleans. The group now has chapters in Florida and California and numbers over 20,000 members. The non partisan grassroots group's mission is education that metro New Orleans was destroyed not by a natural disaster, but by the worst engineering failure in the world since Chernobyl. In 2006, Levees.Org was critical in adding robust Corps Reform measures to the Water Resources Development Act, and was instrumental is passage of federal legislation awarding Louisiana a fairer share in the revenues from royalties on off-shore drilling in the Gulf. Both goals were achieved and Levees.Org's role in those successes was widely recognized. The group's 2008 goal is passage of the 8/29 Investigation Act. Senate Bill 2826 sponsored by Senator Landrieu D-LA will authorize a truly independent and complete analysis of the flood protection failures in metro New Orleans. The Act has broad support from businesses, city governments, environmentalists, neighborhood and special interest groups, and major publications. Click here for the complete list of supporters. Levees.Org has no corporate sponsors and expenses are funded entirely by member donations.

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The Levees.Org website is designed and created by Stanford Rosenthal 17, a junior at Isidore Newman High School in New Orleans.

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