After the Levees Broke

ID: 1031
This file appears in: Lower Ninth Ward Levee Breaches in 2005

This October 2005 photo shows the result of the catastrophic flooding four blocks from the east side south breach of the Industrial Canal. Address: 1825 Forstall Street. Photo/Roy Arrigo

This file appears in: Lower Ninth Ward Levee Breaches in 2005

By Levees.org
Pre-Katrina, the area immediately in front of the east breaches of the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (a.k.a. the Industrial Canal) was a dense, thriving neighborhood of primarily African American…