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4 De Novo: Newsl. L. Libr. La. 1 (2006)

handle is hein.journals/denov4 and id is 1 raw text is: IN THIS ISSUE: Blame it On Bien ydle 1-2 Historic Preservation Law Experts to Speak March 21 Friends of the Library Series Offers Free CLE Johnstown Flood of1889 Loutsana Adopts Unobnn Construction Code Disaster Preparedness Ma terials USSupreme Court Records & Briefs Storn Survivor: New Orleans Puhhc Library After the Stonn: Barbar Blackwels Odser Law Library of Louisiana Hours Monday-Thursday 9am-9pm Friday and Saturday 9am-5pm Telephone (504) 310-2400 Fax (504) 310-2499 Toll free (Louisiana only) 800-820-3038 www.lasc.org At your service: Carol Billings - Director Catherine Lemann -Associate Dir. Georga Chadwick- Librarian Miriam Childs - Librarian Marie Erickson - Librarian Gregory Duhe - Library Associate Ruth Mahoney - Library Associate Jason Kruppa- Library Associate The second program in our Learning at the Law Library series, Protecting New Or- leans Through Historic Preser- vation Law-A Light-Speed Overview, will be presented on Thursday, March 21, by three of the city's most re- spected experts on the subject. Both members of the legal community and the general public are invited to learn from James Derbes, James Logan, and Lloyd Sonny Shields, who will speak at the library from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. Lloyd Shields will concentrate on constitutional issues in historic preservation law; James Logan will review federal statutory matters; and James Derbes will focus on New Orleans and Lou- isiana cases. A discussion and question period will follow the formal presentation, and refresh- ments will be offered. Any Lou- isiana attorney who holds mem- bership in the Friends of the Law Library will be able to re- ceive 1.5 hours of Continuing Legal Education credit for at- tending the MCLE-approved course. Friends dues (basic membership only $25) may be paid during the registration pe- riod beginning at 4:30 p.m. There is no charge for the public or attorneys not seeking CLE credit. Ironically, the historic preserva- tion topic was selected by the board of the Friends of the Library back in pre-Katrina times. Messrs. Derbes, Logan, and Shields were scheduled to do their presen- tation in late October. The catastrophe experienced by the New Orleans area has made the subject one of even greater significance to all residents as plans for renew- ing the city are developed and implemented. Our audience will have an opportunity to ask the speakers to reflect upon earlier efforts by preser- vationists who overcame threats to our the city's archi- tectural heritage and to hear their recommendations for the future. 8 Blame it on Bienville: Flood Control Needed from the Start by Georgia Chadwick In 1718 Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne Sieur de Bienville picked the site for the settle- ment of New Orleans because of its strategic location in a bend in the Mississippi River, not far from Lake Pontchar- train. This location afforded the French an enormous amount of control over the trade and goods shipped from other locations along the river. Bienville directed the engineer De La Tour to lay out the city adjacent to the river. The land by the river was a bit higher, having been built up by peri- odic flooding, but the new city was surrounded on three sides by swamps. A flood inundated the city while it was under construction, and Bienville con- sidered leaving the site. De La Tour directed a levee to be built in front of the city to protect it from the overflow of the river. The work was not completed until 1727 when Governor Per- rier announced that the com- pleted levee was about a mile long and 18 feet wide on top. The levee helped to protect New Orleans from river flooding, though the city was also subject at times to flooding by waters from Lake Pontchartrain or Lake Borne or just from high intensity rainfall. Ditches were dug around each lot and square and around sides of the city as well to help drain the water. These ditches also served for the disposal of human and house- hold waste, and these unsani- tary conditions gave rise to typhoid fever, yellow fever, cholera and other diseases. New Orleans survived and later began to prosper. Plan- tations were established along the river above and below the city, and each property owner was responsi- ble for levee construction and maintenance on his own property. This arrangement served as Louisiana's flood control policy until the mid- dle of the nineteenth century. levee districts, which had the power to tax residents of alluvial land for the purpose continued on page 2 Volume 4, Issue 1 Spring 2006 The Newsletter of The Law Library of Louisiana

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