Raynors HCA 2015-05
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/21/2015
Map, “The Topography and Drainage of New Orleans,” by Thomas S. Hardee, City Surveyor, 1875, 14-1/2” x 19-3/4”, VG. The 1875 map and description of the existing and proposed system for flood control in New Orleans. The system includes drainage machines at several key locations and a 50 foot wide levee, build 4 to 6 feet above the highest known water level. This report notes that the Mississippi River rises and falls as much as 15 feet with the tides. City Surveyor T.S. Hardee concludes this report by saying: “The future of New Orleans, as a great and populous city, depends more upon the successful solution of this drainage problem than almost any other question connected with her welfare.”
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