But strengthening the flood protection system in New Orleans couldn’t spare some neighboring communities from Ida’s destructive storm surge. Two flood protection districts oversee the system in Orleans, Jefferson and St. Bernard parishes. It means it had adequate protection against this storm surge,” Horowitz said. After Katrina, the federal government spent $14.5 billion on projects designed to enhance protection from storm surge and flooding in New Orleans and surrounding suburbs south of Lake Pontchartrain. Work recently began on a levee project to protect tens of thousands of residents of LaPlace and other communities outside New Orleans’ levee system.

Source: Egypt Independent August 30, 2021 21:22 UTC