Progress through Partnership
Mapping Louisianas Recovery

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This map pinpoints a representative sample of the extensive progress taking place in Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard and St. Tammany parishes, highlighting advancements in health care, hazard mitigation, education, housing and public safety. 

Salmen High School
Future students of Salem High School will attend classes at a new, consolidated campus. FEMA Public Assistance has funded $40.7 million toward the reconstruction of the school. The new campus, which will serve more than 800 students, will also be raised 11-feet above sea level to comply with Advisory Base Flood Elevation requirement and to minimize damage in the event of future flooding.

St. Margarets Daughters Nursing Home
FEMA provided more than $8.5 million to relocate St. Margarets Daughters Nursing Home and its 116 residents to a temporary location at Bywater Hospital. Residents cut the ribbon on that new facility in November 2007.

St. Bernard 911 Call Center
Repairs are nearing completion at the St. Bernard 911 Center and operations are scheduled to resume in August 2008. FEMA funded the complete repair of the strategic communications center and related equipment, which suffered more than $1.1 million in damages.

Terrytown Elementary School
This pre-K through fifth grade elementary school was severely damaged by strong winds and wind-driven rain. FEMA granted funds to replace the schools main building with codes and standards upgrades.

Boothville/Venice High School
Flooding and storm surge from Hurricane Katrina left the Boothville/Venice High School extremely damaged but structurally sound. More than $8 million in FEMA PA grants supported the repair of the school, which now serves more than 200 students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade.

Port Sulphur Fire Station:
FEMA worked with the state and Plaquemines Parish to develop a consolidation plan for the Port Sulphur Fire Station and EMS building. This vital infrastructure will provide essential life-saving services to the residents of Port Sulphur.

Grand Isle School Gymnasium
FEMA has provided more than $4.1 million to replace the gym at Grand Isle School, which was destroyed during the storm. The new gym will be built 14 feet off the ground and meet all codes and standards.

Venetian Isles 
The Venetian Isles neighborhood made quick work of its recovery. More than half the homes in the waterfront community were destroyed, but just six months after the storm, nearly a third were either inhabited or being repaired. Of the 71 active Road Home applicants in Venetian Isles, 90% have chosen to rebuild their homes. 76% of those applicants have received their grants, which average $61,585.

Buras Marina
Four Plaquemines Parish-owned marinas (Buras, Point-a-la-Hache, Empire and Venice) are being rebuilt, thanks to $7.9 million from FEMA, the LRA and the Governors Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. The marinas are used daily by commercial and recreational fisherman.

Lacoste Elementary and Chalmette High School 
The new Chalmette High School campus will include a skywalk over Judge Perez Highway connecting the high school to the former Lacoste Elementary school. The state-of-the-art expansion, which is partially funded by FEMA, will include a sports complex, cafeteria, auditorium, library and science lab.

Mapping Southeast Louisianas Recovery

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Touro Infirmary
FEMA paid to update the 567-patient Garden District hospitals generator system, which suffered a near breakdown immediately following Hurricane Katrina. The new generator system will provide a more secure backup power source to prevent interruptions to health care services in the event of future disasters.
 
LSU Dental School
Patients from the New Orleans metropolitan area are receiving much needed dental care, thanks to a FEMA grant for temporary repairs to the LSU School of Dentistry. The repairs allowed 377 dentistry students to return to the classroom last fall.

Elevated Home
This Lakeview home, flooded during Hurricane Katrina, was rebuilt at Advisory Based Flood Elevation. Many homeowners are eligible for grants to elevate their homes through the Road Home program and/or the federal Hazard Mitigation Grant program.

Langston Hughes Elementary School
Approximately $26.5 million will go toward the construction of Langston Hughes Elementary, which is one of five new schools in the Recovery School Districts Quick Start program. The school is scheduled to permanently reopen in August 2009.

200 Carondelet
Once refurbished, the former National American Bank Building will serve as a mixed-income rental property, funded with $26.5 million in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds. The project is part of the states Low Income Housing Tax Credit Piggyback Program that provides market rate housing, workforce housing and housing for extremely low income households.

Touro Infirmary
FEMA paid to update the 567-patient Garden Distrcit hospitals generator system, which suffered a near breakdown immediately following Hurricane Katrina. The new generator system will provide a more secure backup power source to prevent interruptions to health care services in the event of future disasters.

New Orleans Police Headquarters
The center of operations for city law enforcement, NOPD Headquarters is up and running thanks in large part to $6.8 million in FEMA funding for repairsjust a portion of the $21.8 million granted to restore the justice complex. The city moved back into the headquarters in early 2008.

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Hurricanes Katrina and Rita dealt a major blow to Louisianas infrastructure, destroying homes, schools, businesses, hospitals, fire stations and more. In the three years since the storm, the state and federal governments have worked tirelessly to rebuild Louisiana. From billions in FEMA Public Assistance and state Community Development Block Grant funds to the LA House (shown below), a Louisiana State University project in Baton Rouge that showcases smart hazard mitigation building techniques, Louisiana is rebuilding safer, smarter and stronger than before.

This map tracks just some of Louisianas progress during the past three years. Much of the improvement shown has come in the past year, spurred by a renewed sense of partnership between federal and state officials. 

Affordable and Sustainable Housing 
Hurricane Katrina left more than 204,000 homes in Louisiana uninhabitable, damaged or destroyed. FEMA housed nearly 92,000 displaced families in travel trailers and mobile homes and has provided approximately $6.1 billion in individual disaster assistance. The state has awarded $6.8 billion to help homeowners and rental property owners rebuild their lives.

Education
A total of 875 schools were affected by Hurricane Katrina. Of these schools, 40 were completely destroyed. In addition to the physical devastation, thousands of Louisiana students were displaced as a direct result. Recent state enrollment numbers have increased to more than 800,000 K-12 students due in part to FEMAs obligation of approximately $2.1 billion toward K-12 and higher education recovery efforts in Louisiana.

Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)
Hazard mitigation programs help communities reduce their risk during future storms, including elevating homes, adding hurricane shutters to public buildings or acquiring and removing structures from floodplains. FEMA has so far approved more than $200 million for 142 hazard mitigation projects in Louisiana. Of that, the state has paid out $9.3 million.

Health Care
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita damaged 141 Louisiana hospitals and forced 30 to close. FEMA has provided more than $512 million in grant funding for health and research projects, helping hospitals across Louisiana return to their pre-disaster function and capacity.
 
Public Safety
First Responders and critical infrastructure like police and fire stations suffered a devastating blow during Hurricane Katrina. Since then, FEMA has obligating more than $711 million for justice and public safety projects, including $400.5 million for the city of New Orleans. The state, FEMA and the U.S. Coast Guard have also worked to remove approximately 167,000 cubic yards of debris and 1,100 vessels from Louisiana waterways.