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Orleans Levee Board

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From 1890 through 2006, the Orleans Levee Board was the body in charge of supervising the levee and floodwall system in Orleans Parish, Louisiana which is intended to protect New Orleans from flooding. Over the years the Board has also taken on various activities relating to land use on and around the levees.

The Orleans Levee Board was a major governmental entity that functions independently in and around Orleans Parish, Louisiana. Orleans Parish is coextensive with the city of New Orleans. The function of the agency was to protect the greater New Orleans area from flooding and to protect and operate the equipment placed and assigned for that purpose. The board had placed its imprimatur upon and asserted control over such things as far afield as casino gambling and municipal recreational marinas, as these are tied to land use on and near the city's levees. Some critics of the board have charged its members with being more concerned with such lucrative subsidiary activities than with their primary assigned task.