Lower 9th Ward residents can go home: "If water test results expected Monday are clean, he said, people can return -- and get to work on repairing their homes and having trailers delivered -- immediately afterward in the section of the neighborhood between Claiborne Avenue and the Mississippi River.
His 'look and stay' policy, replacing the 'look and leave' policy in the Lower 9th, 'allows you to rebuild,' Nagin said.
Nagin said he got word Friday from the Sewerage & Water Board and Entergy New Orleans that the sewer, power and natural gas systems are in shape to provide service to at least 85 percent of the homes in the Lower 9th, where a breach of the Industrial Canal during Katrina allowed floodwaters to rush in, pushing hundreds of homes off their foundations."
Saturday, May 06, 2006
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