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  2. Criticism of the government response to Hurricane Katrina

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    However, for some demographic groups in Orleans Parish (New Orleans), the death rate for African-Americans was 1.7-4 times higher than for whites; as a whole in Orleans parish, 68% of deaths (459 out of 680 total) were black people, almost exactly the same percentage of the population there as that found in the 2000 U.S. Census (which recorded ...

  3. 2005 levee failures in Greater New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    2005 levee failures in Greater New Orleans. On Monday, August 29, 2005, there were over 50 failures of the levees and flood walls protecting New Orleans, Louisiana, and its suburbs following passage of Hurricane Katrina. The failures caused flooding in 80% of New Orleans and all of St. Bernard Parish. In New Orleans alone, 134,000 housing units ...

  4. Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. As the center of Hurricane Katrina passed southeast of New Orleans on August 29, 2005, winds downtown were in the Category 1 range with frequent intense gusts. The storm surge caused approximately 23 breaches in the drainage canal and navigational canal levees and flood walls. As mandated in the Flood Control Act of 1965 ...

  5. New Orleans faces drinking water crisis from shrinking ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. Much of New Orleans’ water might be spared from saltwater ...

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    The saltwater wedge threatening New Orleans drinking water has been delayed by several weeks in its upstream trek on the Mississippi River thanks to better-than-forecast river flows last month ...

  7. New Orleans faces drinking water crisis from shrinking ... - AOL

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  8. Storyville, New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    Storyville, New Orleans. Coordinates: 29°57′32.69″N 90°04′25.73″W. One of the few surviving buildings from Storyville, 2005 photograph. 100 years earlier, the "New Image Supermarket" building housed Frank Early's saloon, where Tony Jackson regularly played. Storyville was the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1897 to ...

  9. New Orleans Fire Department - Wikipedia

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    IAFF website. The New Orleans Fire Department provides fire protection and first responder emergency medical services to the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. The department serves 378,715 people living in a 350 square miles (910 km 2) area, including 170 square miles (440 km 2) of water. [4]

  10. Civil engineering and infrastructure repair in New Orleans ...

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    The Seabrook Floodgate, a floodgate at the connection of Lake Pontchartrain with the Industrial Canal. In May of 2022, nearly 17 years after Katrina, John Bel Edwards, then governor of Louisiana, declared all projects to repair and improve the New Orleans flood prevention system complete, at an estimated final cost of $15.6 billion.

  11. Strong storms tear through the South leaving over 200K ... - AOL

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    In New Orleans, streets have been inundated with water with flash flood warnings in place through around 4 p.m. local time in some areas of the state and a tornado watch in Orleans Parish through ...