NewOrleansRenaissance.com
Challenges of the Watery World
in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Slidell residents fill sandbags as Tropical Storm Cindy approaches, 7/5/05.

• Levees.org:
  • The Katrina Myth; the Truth About a Thoroughly Unnatural Disaster (video)
• Fix the Pumps Blog
• Last Chance
  • Part 1: The Fight to Save a Disappearing Coast, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 3/4/07
  • Part 2: Losing Ground, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 3/5/07
  • Part 3: Laying the Groundwork, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 3/6/07
  • Industry Keeps Marching through Louisiana's Wetlands, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 3/5/07
• Changing Course to Go With the Flow, Washington Post, 9/11/05
• Engineers Offer a New Explanation of How Levees Broke, New York Times, 10/8/05
• Forensic Experts Push for Levee System Overhaul, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 5/23/06
• Gone With the Waters, National Geographic, 10/04
• Loss of New Orleans…Was a Plan, Reason, 9/19/05
• LSU Researchers Pessimistic on Coastal Restoration Projects, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 6/28/09
• MR-GO Canal May Have Worsened City's Flooding, Washington Post, 9/14/05
• New Orleans: Keeping Its Head Above Water, Houston Chronicle, 12/1/01
• New Orleans Levee Reported Weak in 1990s, NBC News, 9/29/05
• New Orleans ‘Risks Extinction’, BBC News, 2/3/06
• Study Finds Rapid Pre-Katrina Sinking in New Orleans, CNN, 5/31/06
• Washing Away, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 6/23-27/02
• 1970's Wetlands Controversies Including the Pontchartrain Floodgate Proposal
  • Green Genocide, FrontPage, 9/8/05
  • Greens Blocked Plan That May Have Saved New Orleans, Human Events, 9/16/05
  • Creation of Save Our Wetlands and Early Legal Battles, SOWL
  • Luke Fontana: Nature's Advocate, The Community Standard, 3/75

  ---

  Notes

  • Photograph and editing are by Henry H. Mitchell.
  • Research assistance is provided by P. L. Anderson, Jr., Suzanne J. Gill, Henry Hurt, David C. Kelly, Adrian McGrath, David L. Mitchell, Patricia B. Mitchell, Sarah E. Mitchell, Chris Smith, Francis Taylor, and S. Dail Yeatts.
  
  

  ---

  [NewOrleansRenaissance.com]
  [Guide to New Orleans, LA]
  [Guide to the French Quarter]

  This guide to New Orleans and its NewOrleansRenaissance.com portal are sponsored by Mitchells Publications.

  Copyright © 2005–2009 Patricia B. Mitchell.