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Batture dwellers in New Orleans live tax free on river land
A New Orleans batture community along the Mississippi faces eviction after years of free tax status. About 400 residents inhabit makeshift camps and solid homes on leveed land between the river and the levee. Court battles and public opinion complicate attempts to remove squatters while engineers and levee officials warn that maintaining the levee is paramount.
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Cedar Rapids
New Orleans
Orleans
Thad
Mississippi River
Bealure
Styte
Louisiana
Mississippi
U.S. Army Engineers
Levee Board
Carrollton Avenue
Batterites
Marie Meliet
Louis H. Yarrut
W. R. Slaughter
Army Engineers
New Orleans Batture
Bature
William Carlin