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BGR Breakfast Briefing: Keeping Levees First: Who's Running Our Flood Protection
Date and Time
Thursday Nov 5, 2026
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM CSTThursday, November 5
8-9 a.m. (doors open at 7:30 a.m. for coffee and networking)
Location
First Horizon Bank Atrium
Pan-American Life Center
601 Poydras Street, 20th Floor
New Orleans, LA 70130Fees/Admission
Admission is free, thanks to the sponsorship of First Horizon Bank. Seating is limited.
Reserve your seat here: https://www.bgr.org/november-2026-breakfast-briefing/
Can't make it in person? Sign up for the livestream: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JBZXT29Website
Contact Information
Heather Sweeney
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Description
We don’t have a region without flood protection.
Twenty years ago, voters reformed the region’s levee boards to put flood protection in the hands of experts and insulate it from politics. BGR supported those reforms and has continued to defend them.
Today, the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority – East is undergoing major changes in its leadership, staffing and operations, raising questions about the agency’s direction and focus.
At BGR’s fall Breakfast Briefing, “Keeping Levees First: Who’s Running Our Flood Protection?” BGR President & CEO Rebecca Mowbray will moderate a conversation with Blair duQuesnay of Citizens for 1 Greater New Orleans, State Senator Kirk Talbot and SLFPA-East Regional Director Jeff Williams about what’s changing, why it matters and what it means for the region’s flood protection.
