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New Orleans was ns articlot in the national forefront of efforts by cities to improve either their drainage or sewage disposal. Prior to the mid-1890s, drainage and the sanitary disposal of sewage in New Orleans were viewed as a single issue when any serious thought was given to improvement at all. Natural conditions in New Orleans made both flooding and sanitary conditions into severe problems for the city’s inhabitants, with terrible consequences for public health. However, solving the drainage problems of New Orleans was not a simple matter. New Orleans drainage problems: · New Orleans had to face the problem of overflows from the Mississippi River and formed tidal waters in Lake Pontchartrain. · To prevent high lake tides from flooding into the lower part of the area they installed levees around the river bank. · They built ditches and canals to drain the storms water into the tidal bayous. The water rose to a level which didn’t allowed much relief by such method. Pierre Le Blond de la Tour and his assistant Adrien de Pauger planed the original town of New Orleans. The plan called for fourteen squares extending along the river with a depth of six squares back from the river. Each square was encircled by a ditch, and the whole city was surrounded by a canal. During heavy rain storms, the streets were completely flooded, and each square became an island. Little was done during the French colonial period (1718 to 1769) to improve sanitary conditions. Some individuals built cesspools, but generally raw sewage ended up in the open drainage gutters. Drainage and flood protection received somewhat more attention from the government, but remained totally not enough. During the term of Governor Etienne de Perrier, a levee extending eighteen miles upriver and downriver from the city was erected for flood protection.

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