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Satellite photos of New Orleans taken in March 2004, then on August 31, 2005, after the levee failures. Investigators focused on the 17th Street and London Avenue canals, where evidence showed they were breached even though water did not flow over their tops, indicating a design or construction flaw. Eyewitness accounts and other evidence show ...
This story—50 years in the making—is heart-wrenching. Millions of dollars were squandered in building a levee system with respect to these outfall canals which was known to be inadequate by the corps's own calculations. [49] Duval's decision left the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board and Orleans Levee District as defendants in the lawsuit ...
On Monday, September 5, 2005, electrical power began to be restored to buildings in the central business district of New Orleans on a priority basis. [30] By Thursday, September 8, Entergy had restored 9 of 17 electricity generating units in the New Orleans area to service. Entergy's 1000 MW Waterford and Watson plants were still out of service ...
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August 29, 2005 – Although Hurricane Katrina's eye came ashore in lower Plaquemines Parish Louisiana, the resulting storm surge resulted in multiple levee failures in the New Orleans area, flooding approximately 80% of the city, with some places being inundated by more than 15 ft (4.6 m) of water. The failures of the levees were considered ...
UNITY of Greater New Orleans reported 1,188 homeless people after their 2018 Point-in-Time count performed in January. [25] As of 2018, New Orleans has maintained a "functional zero" in veteran homelessness for three years. Going forward, UNITY's efforts are focused on support for chronically homeless people with physical and/or mental ...
Lessons from New Orleans' experience with Ida show that climate resiliency can't be achieved with single-purpose infrastructure projects.
The Orleans Levee District was created by the Louisiana legislature in 1890 for the purpose of protecting the low-lying city of New Orleans from floods. At that time, communities along the Mississippi River were largely in charge of creating their own levees to protect themselves, as no unified levee system existed.