Keywords: New Orleans USACE-17th Canal-A-09-04-05 0004.JPG New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina The 17th Street Canal stretches southward the boundry between Jefferson and Orleans Parishes in Louisiana This aerial photo was taken Sunday September 4 2005 The bridge in the foreground The Old Hammond Highway Bridge undergoing a rebuilding before the storm enabled Army Corps of Engineers contracts to drive sheet piling to close off the canal from Lake Ponchartrain The Lake Pontchartrain end of the Canal is just over block distant off the lower left edge of the photo Looking down the canal the breach into Orleans Parish is visible The skyline of the New Orleans Central Business District lies in the distance In the front center left the pilings are all that remain of locally famous Sid-Mar's Seafood Restaurant destroyed by the storm U S Army Corps of Engineers photo by Alan Dooley http //www usace army mil/katrina-images/NO-A-09-04-05_0004 JPG Related images include <gallery> Image New Orleans USACE-Blackhawk-A-09-04-05 0072 jpg Blackhawk helicopter delivering sandbag Pattern of sandbags is similar to this image Image Sheet pile New Orleans-09-04-05 JPG Sheet pile material </gallery> PD-USGov 17th Street Canal after Katrina Hurricane Katrina aftermath in New Orleans Sheet piling |