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Forensic Engineering Services
Pepper and Associates, Inc.
Is the levee district or the parish liable for maintaining levees - In
this class action, residents and property owners of an area known as the Lower
Coast of Algiers are seeking to recover their damages sustained when heavy rains
flooded the area. The defendants are the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board
(S&WB;, who allegedly was responsible for additional flooding and a prolonged
period of flooding because of its negligence in failing to repair timely one of
its pumps that was inoperative during the storm, and the Plaquemines Parish
Government (PPG), who allegedly was responsible for additional flooding and a
prolonged period of flooding because of the erection of an emergency dam
designed to prevent floodwaters from flowing into Plaquemines Parish from
Orleans Parish through a gap in the levee along the parish line. On certiorari
to this court after an adverse judgment on the merits, the S&WB;and the PPG
raised substantial issues of liability and causation.
Saden v. Kirby, 660 So.2d 423 (La. 1995)
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