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> The Great New Orleans Land Grab-The 17th Street Canal levee was breached on purpose

18 December 2005, 06:08

What you have said here is interesting to say the least.

"It seems that a well laid out plan was put into effect to grab valuable real estate from well established but poverty stricken Black families of New Orleans? What is being implemented now is nothing less than a sophisticated scheme to purge and ethnically cleanse what Whites have termed "Black and ’welfare bloated’ New Orleans."

Unfortunately, the Industrial Canal breach is by the lower ninth ward is where the " "Black and ’welfare bloated’ New Orleans." families are mostly located.

The 17th street canal breach is right where the most prominent white families with money reside in New Orleans. The families by the 17th street canal make up 56% of the New Orleans tax base.

I saw a news report concerning the two breaches where a resident of the lower ninth ward said that the Industrial canal breach was done on purpose, and that the 17th canal breach was fixed, but not the Industrial canal breach because "we’re poor"

Well the semantics of the situation are very diverse. This is because the 17th street canal is a drainage canal. It is not very wide and it runs into town and to Jefferson highway. It drains rain water from streets.

The industrial canal however, connects the Lake to the Missippi river and the Intercoastal waterway which connects to the Gulf of Mexico. The intercoastal waterway allows for barges and ships to traverse the lake , River and Intercoastal water way. The ships can only travel in certain areas of the lake because the lake in general is only about 15 feet deep in certain areas, except where lanes were dredged for shipping. The Industrial canal was dredged deep for shipping.

The 17th street canal was dredged to be a drainage canal, not to hold ships.

The 17th street Canal breach was temporarily eaisly fixed by using sheetpile to close off the end of the 17th street canal, which then facalitated the ability to repair the canal.

However, there is no way to close off the industrial canal with sheet pile because of it’s depth. Plus you would have to close it off at the Lake, and at the Mississippi River and Intercoastal Waterway ends of the canal. Otherwise water comes from either direction.

There is no point to flooding the richest part of the city and the poorest part of the city in essence wipeing out the upper and lower class, unless it was a conspiracy to allow the Middle class to become the only class in the city.

The upper rich white families who make up the most of the cities tax base took it just as bad in devestation as the poor people. There were people in that area that did not get out and drownd. Partly because they didn’t believe they would ever flood. I attended two churches church in that area know as Lakeview. One church Lakeview Christian Center, I attended in the 80’s to mid 90’s and the other from about 95 to 2001. Both of these churches buildings took on 15 feet of water or more. Therefore any one story houses in the area were devastated.

I have a friend who grew up in Lakeview. She curently lives in Jefferson Parish. Her Mother and brother still lived in the house that she grew up in located in Lakeview. Because their house was destroyed, the Mother and brother now live with my friend in a one bedroom condo. It’s basically a one bedroom apartment. I’ve been in my friends condo. It’s very tight and hard to move around in, because my friend collects things. So many things that it smothers theis bacically one bedroom apartment. Not much of a condo.

My Friends Mom and Son each have a suitecase with about three pairs of cloths in them. The mother sleeps in the same bed with her daughter (my friend) and the brother sleeps on the couch. No one is happy that this has happened.

I guess the Middle class justs wants to grab all of the land, or there really was no avoiding this situation that God allowed to happen.

Did the government move fast enough? Probably not, were there mistakes made? probably yes. Did anyone think that this wa going to happen after Katrina had already passed by the city? No. The first sign was that New Orleans missed the damage of the storm.

People give up the bitter fight of enuendo’s rumors and strife, and lets just focus on rebuilding New Orleans from scratch as it was done from the beginning. Obviously New Orleans was not built the way it was overnight, It can’t be rebuilt overnight either. It will take time and alot of sweat equity by people who want it to be rebuilt.

Some people are complaining that the Mexicans are comming in to rebuild and taking Jobs from the locals. Some of these people complaining were of the lower class. Well it seems that after a Jessie Jackson left the city to with two busses to bring back 200 black new orleans residents to do work, He returned with 200 blacks, but only 50 of the 200 were from New Orleans. He found that the Blacks didn’t want to come back. They don’t want to come back and get work. If they come back and work, they would have a greater impact on the city and how it will continue to thrive, and they wouldn’t be poor from returning to do work.

Rob