The city of New Orleans had crews at a Mid-City canal Thursday trying to remove cars from an underground canal. Here is one of the vehicles they recovered.
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We all know that New Orleans over the years has been known for drainage problems. It’s no surprise when workers pull trash, debris or even literal tons of Mardi Gras beads out of New Orleans’ clogged drainage pipes.
Entire cars in underground pipes, however, are an unusual find, even for the City of New Orleans!
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Sewerage and Water Board crews on Tuesday came across what appear to be two vehicles crammed into a drainage culvert that runs under Jefferson Davis Parkway near the Lafitte Greenway.
The cars, embedded in a pile of other debris, were clogging up one of the key pipelines that feeds water to the pump station that drains parts of Mid-City, an area that has been hard hit by flooding in recent years.
