Hoey's Basin seeks federal money for 'pump to the river'

Posted by The Times-Picayune August 08, 2007 6:44PM

By Richard Rainey
East Jefferson bureau

Blessed by the Jefferson Parish Council, advocates of a plan to drain Old Metairie and part of Old Jefferson into the Mississippi River rolled out a petition drive Wednesday.

Residents of the 2,500-acre Hoey's Basin alternately praised the council for its interest in the "pump to the river" plan and pleaded for federal money to pay for it.

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