Levee Exhibit Hall and Garden

Levee Exhibit Hall and Garden Outdoor levee exhibition set next to a lovely rain garden. Six museum quality panels explain the worst civil engineering disaster in U.S.

history; the failure of levees during Hurricane Katrina. On July 11, 2015, Levees.org hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony for the first ever outdoor levee exhibit at 5000 Warrington Drive in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans. Residents and visitors alike can view six museum-quality exhibit panels housed in a 100-foot covered walkway. The text and forty photographs tell the story and bust the m

yths still encircling the levee breaches in Greater New Orleans in 2005. The six panels are about ALL the levee breaches, ALL the neighborhoods, ALL the lives. The Levee Exhibit Hall and Rain Garden are located at the east breach site of the London Avenue Canal. Water from the breach had actually pushed the home that once stood there, foundation and all, into the street. Much of the information in the exhibit is new and referenced from a scientific paper just released in August 2015 in Water Policy, the official journal of the World Water Council. The exhibit hall and garden is free, open to everyone during daylight hours and is expected to be permanent. The beautiful garden uses native plants which use less fertilizer and reduce the load on the municipal drainage system.

This lovely group of sixty (60) students from St. Louis University planted 60 trees on Filmore Ave today! They are volun...
03/11/2026

This lovely group of sixty (60) students from St. Louis University planted 60 trees on Filmore Ave today! They are volunteering with NOLA Tree Project. Now, they are taking a well deserved rest at the Exhibit Hall! Photo/Connie Uddo

A late posting of a historic event. The great snowfall of January 2025! Photo/Geromy Moore
10/04/2025

A late posting of a historic event. The great snowfall of January 2025! Photo/Geromy Moore

After a year of using the lot between the Flooded House Museum and the Exhibit Hall & Garden as a staging area, the New ...
10/01/2025

After a year of using the lot between the Flooded House Museum and the Exhibit Hall & Garden as a staging area, the New Orleans S&WB have departed!

08/28/2025

It's official! WWL-TV Channel 4 News will host their Aug 29th Hurricane Katrina shows at 5/6 pm at Levees.org's Levee Exhibit Hall and Garden in Gentilly, New Orleans!

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The rain garden at the Levee Exhibit Hall doing exactly what it's designed to do, hold water. By reducing the water bein...
02/25/2025

The rain garden at the Levee Exhibit Hall doing exactly what it's designed to do, hold water. By reducing the water being drained into the municipal city system, flooding is reduced! And the native plants are obviously thrilled about it!

So important to share the stories about the New Orleans Flood of 2005 with the middle schoolers from St. Martins! We vis...
10/29/2024

So important to share the stories about the New Orleans Flood of 2005 with the middle schoolers from St. Martins! We visited the Exhibit Hall and also the Flooded House Museum!

07/09/2024

Support for the Engineering Failures Education campaign grows daily. Here's the list of supporting organizations so far:

Supert advice from a survivor of the levee breaks during Hurricane Katrina.Dear Annie: Less stuff, more fun experiences
12/31/2023

Supert advice from a survivor of the levee breaks during Hurricane Katrina.

Dear Annie: Less stuff, more fun experiences

In lieu of exchanging more stuff, my friends now plan outings together and pick up the tab for the celebrant.

Thank you The Advocate for featuring my OpEd about the Army Corps of Engineers and its penchant for blaming everything e...
10/20/2023

Thank you The Advocate for featuring my OpEd about the Army Corps of Engineers and its penchant for blaming everything except itself. On the online homepage!

We closely observed the media reporting by the New Orleans District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers after its levees broke during Hurricane Katrina.

Would you believe that engineering students are not receiving instruction about engineering failures? If you think that ...
08/29/2023

Would you believe that engineering students are not receiving instruction about engineering failures? If you think that needs to change, sign here!

Engineering Schools are currently not required to provide instruction to students on engineering failures. This means that students currently in engineering schools--those who will be designing structures twenty years from now--may not be aware of past engineering failures. This must change. Enginee...

Drumroll please! We are pleased to announce that our Levee Exhibit Hall & Rain Garden has joined the ranks of TravelAgen...
08/14/2023

Drumroll please! We are pleased to announce that our Levee Exhibit Hall & Rain Garden has joined the ranks of TravelAgents10, the ultimate travel directory!

Outdoor levee exhibition set next to a lovely rain garden. Six museum quality panels explain the wor

Beautiful flowering tree at the Flooded House Museum!
07/28/2023

Beautiful flowering tree at the Flooded House Museum!

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