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Utility companies have warned for years about the hazards of Mylar balloons and that message resounded Thursday across New Orleans as most of the city's nearly 370,000 residents were under a boil ...
New Orleans is facing a drinking water crisis amid a saltwater intrusion on the quickly shrinking Mississippi River. Local water resources in south Louisiana are being strained as saltwater from ...
Officials in Louisiana are in a race against time as salt water from the Gulf of Mexico threatens drinking water supplies in New Orleans and its surrounding areas because of unusually low levels ...
A boil water advisory is in place for the East Bank of New Orleans and Algiers Point after a foil balloon hit a power line and briefly caused an outage at a water treatment plant. Entergy New ...
As of 2017, the New Orleans pumping system - operated by the Sewerage and Water Board - can pump water out of the city at a rate of more than 45,000 cubic feet (1,300 m 3) per second. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The capacity is also frequently described as 1 inch (2.5 cm) in the first hour of rainfall followed by 0.5 inches (1.3 cm) per hour afterward. [ 2 ]
Intersection of MRGO (to right) with the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, as seen from I-510 Bridge Tugboat and barge in MRGO at Shell Beach, St. Bernard Parish. With the completion of MRGO in 1965, the Port of New Orleans advanced a plan to largely abandon its wharfs along the Mississippi River and relocate its activities to the inner harbor created by the Industrial Canal, the Intracoastal ...
As a result, Congress authorized SELA to improve flood control and rainfall drainage systems in Jefferson, Orleans, and St. Tammany Parishes. The authorization was contained in Section 108 of the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1996 and Section 533 of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 1996.
The weather service in New Orleans said during a 9 p.m. briefing that water was entering homes and businesses across St. Charles Parish, getting close to that in St. John the Baptist Parish, and ...