I'm sure that's exactly what they will do with most of N.O. as long as the US taxpayer is picking up the tab (not to mention they want us to pay the paltry sum of a couple of million bucks to everyone who survived and probably more to those who didn't as per 9/11.) If they had bulldozed every wooden structure on Wheeling Island because of sitting in polluted water more than 3 days, there wouldn't be anything there except the concrete grandstand of the race track and the 3 ft. wall that surrounds the grounds. I couldn't even begin to count the number of times the Ohio has flooded this place since 1900 bringing with it the contents of chemical plants, oil and gas, sewage and who knows what else. Almost all the houses are the wooden "summer" homes Victorians built from approx. 1850's to 1930's and some have even been moved to higher spots on the island to avoid every single flood or to make way for new bridges, etc.