Flood Protection Project Likely Contributed To New Orleans Neighborhood’s Inundation
Thursday, August 10th, 2017 Property SubrogationA Desire neighborhood that sits in the shadow of a major Sewerage & Water Board pump station took on several feet of water during Saturday’s heavy rainstorm. The flood left people cleaning out their flooded cars and business owners trying to dry out and re-open. Mother nature may be as much to blame for the flood as a drainage construction project by the US Army Corps of Engineers. “That’s a $30,000 sander right there. Gone? Gone,” said Bobby Terese, the owner of Terese’s Top Works, a business run out of a cluster of warehouses half a block from the Peoples Avenue Canal. Terese estimates the flood will cost him $300,000 after his flood insurance picks up part of the tab.
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http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/corps-of-engineers-flood-project-may-have-added-to-desire-flooding-1/462917426
