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...that could help defuse the fraught racial politics of the rebuilding process. Those grow out of the fact that many of the city's most flood-prone areas, like the Lower Ninth Ward, are home to a substantial number of its African-American residents, who look long and hard at any sign that the city may forbid them to return. The city has been eager to discourage piecemeal redevelopment, in which a handful of residents here and there try to re-establish themselves in vulnerable neighborhoods. But after Mayor C. Ray Nagin hinted last year that he would consider declaring...
...Nagin, has the advantage of allowing people to rebuild pretty much anywhere. But there's one important catch: wherever they build, they must meet stringent new state building codes and FEMA rules that require houses in low-lying areas to be raised several feet above ground level. The most flood-prone neighborhoods, many of them poor, will probably require the most new protections, at a cost that could discourage residents from going back to the same spot...
...time of the election, there will have been another big development in the city's life. FEMA is expected to issue its advisory floodplain maps in March. Those will identify the most flood-prone parts of town, where homeowners must obtain flood insurance. Until the maps come out, it's hard for people to calculate the cost of returning. Construction worker Mike Reed was gutting a wood-frame house last week in Lakeview, a prosperous neighborhood on the lip of Lake Pontchartrain that was devastated when the 17th Street levee broke. "Most people have had their places gutted," he says...
...group within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers charged with making short-term repairs to the levee system by the start of storm season. To date, the Corps has signed nearly $400 million in repair contracts. All around town its crews can be seen working to restore levees, fix flood walls and install interim floodgates and bypass pumps. But for months the mantra around New Orleans has been that in the longer term, the city must have more--namely storm protection sufficient to resist a Category 5 storm. (Katrina was at most a Category 4 when it hit land...
...drain and pulled to dislodge blockages Mills said. Mills added that cleaners were also brought in to ‘sanitize surfaces’ before dinner, which allowed for Eliot students to return to their own dining hall last night to eat. Mills also confirmed that there was no flood damage to food stocks. Last Monday, a flood in the Leverett House dining hall shut the private dining room as well as the junior and senior common rooms, redirecting students to the Winthrop and Quincy dining halls. Plumbing problems may have been the cause of the Leverett water leakage, though...