Harry Shearer

ID: 884
This file appears in: 17th Street Canal Levee Breach in 2005

Part-time New Orleans resident Harry Shearer's most serious work in a career spent in comedy is rooted in his advocacy on behalf of post-Katrina New Orleans. Shearer produced the 2010 documentary The Big Uneasy regarding the roles that the US Army Corps of Engineers and human error played in the levee failures.

This file appears in: 17th Street Canal Levee Breach in 2005

By Levees.org
In 1965, Hurricane Betsy demonstrated that a major hurricane could overtop the earthen levees of the 17th Street Canal. So the Army Corps of Engineers recommended two cost-effective plans which were…