Corps starts $1B barrier for western New Orleans
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- News Source: Washington Post | 24 days agoMindful that the West Bank of New Orleans has regained its pre-Hurricane Katrina population and is primed for growth, the Army Corps of Engineers is launching a $1 billion effort to protect the area from the next storm. New Orleans's population...
- News Source: Palm Beach Post | 24 days agoLa. — The Army Corps of Engineers has broken ground on one of the last major pieces of the improved levee system it is building for the New Orleans area. Crews are building a $1 billion floodgate and pump project to block hurricane surge from...
- Blog Source: www.wafb.comSo far, it has been spared catastrophic flooding. Katrina passed to the east in August 2005, and the West Bank was one of the only dry places in the city after levees failed on the East Bank, the main part of the metro area. But after Katrina,
- Blog Source: blog.taragana.comThe West Bank project is one of two the corps is building to protect New Orleans, the other being a similar storm surge barrier on the East Bank that closes off the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal. With large areas of the West Bank undeveloped pasture,
- Blog Source: neworleans10.cityspur.comThe new flood protection is already… New Orleans – Flood – United States Army Corps of Engineers – Levee – United States. Continued here: Corps starts $1B barrier for western New Orleans (San Francisco Chronicle) ...
- Blog Source: www.washingtonexaminer.comThe new flood protection is already having a potentially dangerous consequence, though: It's encouraging more people to move into another bowl-shaped area that experts consider perhaps the city's most vulnerable flank. While New Orleans' population
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