[Phsstpok]

Bring shipping in through Lake Pontchartrain and cut a canal through to the Mississippi west of Spillway Levee. You can also put your container stuff up there and get it out of the downtown area. Then put up the flood control systems at the entrance to Pontchartrain that the enviro weenies killed back 30 years ago. That would have solved the surge that contributed to the levee collapse (notice, not "caused," just "contributed").

Then turn everything from New Orleans south on the Mississippi into a managed wetlands, allowing for the grandfathered residents.

[martinb714]

"Then turn everything from New Orleans south on the Mississippi into a managed wetlands, allowing for the grandfathered residents."

Lake Ponchartrain probably wouldn't be deep enough but the rest of your post sounds good to me.