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Article: Repairs may endanger French Quarter
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- July 2, 2007
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NEW ORLEANS -- The government's repairs to New Orleans' hurricane-
damaged levees may put the French Quarter in greater danger than it
was before Hurricane Katrina, a weakness planners said can't be
helped, at least for now.
Experts say the stronger levees and flood walls could funnel
storm water into the cul-de-sac of the Industrial Canal, only two
miles from Bourbon Street, and overwhelm the waterway's 12-foot-
high concrete flood walls 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 ...