Shots of the Chernoblesque Magnolia housing project NOLA

[redox]

This is a place I never thought I'd be walking around in. It was much scarier when it was inhabited.

[ropingk]

man that would take a ton of rehab and probaly several million dollas in cash

[Pinwheel]

Thanks for posting those pictures. I remember driving by that area on a dare once. That might be one of the places New Orleans is best just bulldozing.

[ropingk]

id say there isnt much way of fixing that mess, tear it down and start over hopefully with a better outcome

[Former User #1]

No way... that'd be like bulldozing Storyville... too much history, even though it's a really bad part of town. There's a lot of places in NOLA like that - really amazing histories, neat architecture, but you wouldn't want to go there at night... or twilight... or if was cloudy... ok maybe not at all.

[Willard]

I hate to say this but most areas in and around New Orleans that flooded badly need to be bulldozed and put back to swam and marsh land. I've said this many times to many people and it's pissed off many people but it just makes sense to me.

[Former User #1]

Well, ya, but that would never happen. Professors and scientists have said that over the years... the swamp provides a natural buffer to the storms. But the corp of engineers could never justify removing the levees to restore the natural process of the freshwater flooding the swamps to build them up again. People chose to live there long before the US had things like floodzone mapping. Now everytime I try to design something in a wetland area it takes an act of God to get it through... so I guess we're learning.

[ropingk]

maybe but as with most things some people just take advantage i work in a area where there is really no way of a flood getting here (ok if GOD himself said flood maybe) but to build a extension on to the existing building and becuse we are in a flood plane it will cost my company a extra $100,000 in fill???????

[Former User #1]

You're in a 100 yr flood (aka 1% annual chance) flood zone. Sometimes you can get a LOMC or LOMA from FEMA to avoid having to elevate with fill. Especially if you can prove that the area will never flood in a 100 yr flood. Which is not too hard to do. You can either prove that there isn't as much flow going through your channel/river as FEMA says there is, or that the 100 yr flood can't get to your building.

Most companies (like mine) will take a preliminary look at whether it's feasible to avoid adding fill for free before charging for doing the FEMA paperwork and modeling. So that's my sales pitch. lol.