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The Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan (UWP) is a collaborative, multibillion dollar post-Katrina redevelopment plan for the New Orleans metropolitan area. Originally released in 2013, the UWP is the result of collaborative efforts among Greater New Orleans, Inc., local civic leaders, and stormwater management experts. [ 34 ]
Recovery of New Orleans was seen as a three-phase process: first and most immediate, to unwater the city and assess flood protection. Second, to provide an interim level of protection to get the city through hurricane season and later high water, and over the long-term, to return the system to pre-hurricane conditions.
Pulling up to Jerry Reed's house in St. Roch neighborhood is like stepping back in time to August 2005, when Hurricane Katrina ripped through the area. New Orleans' recovery from Hurricane Katrina ...
Infographic timeline compares rebuilding in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to notable events nationwide in the last decade.
Four Years After Katrina, New Orleans Still Struggling to Recover from the Storm – video report by ‘’Democracy Now!‘’ ‘’’News Coverage‘’’, critical 26min. video compilation of cable news coverage as Katrina makes landfall – by Cultural Farming. Imagining New Orleans Oral History Project Collection. Yale Collection of ...
August 29 marks the 10-year anniversary of the day that Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana, and since then, New Orleans and surrounding areas have never been the same. The hurricane brought death ...
In 1965, New Orleans was hit by Hurricane Betsy, which caused tremendous flooding in the New Orleans area. The federal government began a levee-building program to protect New Orleans from a Category 3 hurricane (the same strength as Betsy). These series of levees were completed in recent years before Hurricane Katrina.
In the five years since it hit New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina has reshaped the city's population -- and perhaps its financial future as well. The aftermath of the 2005 storm, which took 1,835 ...