Times Picayune report covers Industrial Canal overtopping, and notes nothing regarding problems at 17th Street or London Avenue.
An article notes that rainwater is being held underground in tunnels until the sheet steel piling at the 17th Street and London Ave. canals is removed, to facilitate pumping out of the accumulated rainfall. Capacity is about a 6 inch rainfall.
Thanks, Cboldt, nice find. From the article:
A section near the Lakefront, once dried out from Katrina, was taking
water once again. The London Avenue Canal, also fortified by sheet
piles, was seeping water into the Vista Park neighborhood, on the west
side of the canal, which had several inches of street and lawn flooding in
places. A day before it had been bone dry.
Other reports indicate more than a seep. If and when the CoE reports it increasing to a "trickle", look out.
Lake P is at plus 4.5 feet, 3.5 above normal, 1 foot less than when NO reached equilibrium after Katrina. NOAA has much of the lower Mississippi River watershed under an 8 inch flood watch, and this article indicates that one lock from the Mississippi to Lake P is standing open.
NO is liable to flood again, the only question now is how much and where.