I have often heard people blame the levees for the land loss crisis here in Southeast Louisiana. Like they were a curse that starved the wetlands of sediment that originally built this Delta over a period of 3000 years. The word “levee” presumably is French for “raised.” It was the great flood of 1927 which […]
With the National Weather Service predicting that the Mississippi River will rise to 20ft (as of 4 a.m. on July 11, 2019), many residents are understandably concerned. On Wednesday, a graphic published by Nola.com showed areas where the Mississippi River levees are below 20 feet – mostly along the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans […]
Photos posted by the BRPD show the Mississippi River near River Rd. north and south of the LSU campus nearing the top of the levee.
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