Flooding in already hard-hit Lower 9th Ward
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Water poured through a breached levee protecting New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward on Friday, flooding the low-lying but largely empty neighborhood that was devastated last month by Hurricane Katrina.
An 8-foot storm surge from approaching Hurricane Rita overtopped a damaged section of the Industrial Canal levee where the Army Corps of Engineers had made temporary repairs, Brig. Gen. Robert Crear said.
The rushing waters appeared to have pushed aside any sandbags or other temporary barricades that had been placed there to plug the breach.
The Army Corps of Engineers disputed that, saying water was overtopping the Industrial Canal levee but the barrier was still intact. The corps is "not worried right now," spokesman Mitch Frazier said. [Watch video, Read more - CNN]
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