What city's Lower Ninth Ward is partially below sea level?
Lower Ninth Ward in the Desire Area. Lower Ninth Ward Lower Ninth Ward is a neighborhood of the U.S. city of New Orleans, Louisiana. As the name implies, it is part of the 9th Ward of New Orleans. The Lower Ninth Ward is often thought of as the entire area within New Orleans downriver of the Industrial Canal; however, the City Planning Commission divides this area into the Lower Ninth Ward and Holy Cross neighborhoods. The term "Lower" refers to its location farther towards the mouth of the Mississippi River, , "down" or "below" the rest of the city. The 9th Ward, like
Lower Ninth Ward As of October 2017, lowernine.org has fully rebuilt 85 Lower Ninth Ward homes, and completed repair and renovation projects on over 250 more properties. Residents and volunteers are striving to make the Lower Ninth Ward a sustainable community. They are working to restore the local wetlands. It is widely believed that were it not for the extensive canal dredging to support commercial development, resulting in subsequent wetlands subsidence, the Lower Ninth Ward would not have suffered such extensive flooding during Katrina. In March 2012, the "New York Times" reported that "[t]he neighborhood has become a dumping ground for many kinds