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Article: Levee repairs compromise French Quarter
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- July 2, 2007
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The government's repairs to New
Orleans'hurricane-damaged levees might put the French Quarter in
greater danger than it was before Hurricane Katrina, a weakness
planners said couldn't be helped, at least for now.
Experts say the stronger levees and floodwalls could funnel storm
water into the cul-de-sac of the Industrial Canal, only 2 miles from
Bourbon Street, and overwhelm the waterway's 12-foot-high concrete
floodwalls that shield some of the city's most cherished
neighborhoods.
The only things separating Creole bungalows and St. Louis
Cathedral from a hurricane's storm surge are those barriers, similar
in design to the walls that broke during Katrina.
"A system is much ...