Proposed Harvey Canal Levee Improvement to Test Legal Boundaries
New Orleans City Business › June 29, 2006
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When Ronald Besson was president of the West Jefferson Levee District from 1980 to 1990, he tried to use district funds to improve levees on private property along the east and west sides of the Harvey Canal.
But the Louisiana attorney general's office told him would be an illegal use of public dollars - even though the goal was to provide better flood protection for hundreds of thousands of residents.See the full content of this document
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Proposed Harvey Canal Levee Improvement to Test Legal Boundaries
You can't use public money for private use, he said.
Jefferson Parish officials are again attempting to use public funds to raise the levees on the ...See the full content of this document
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