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...and now it must deal with the environmental and health risks the toxic waters leave behind. Leaders also face tough decisions about what to tear down, what to restore and where to build as competing ideas surface from the local, state and federal level.

"There's not going to be support for putting back everything the way it was," said Kenneth Potter, a professor of civil and environmental engineering who researches the design of flood-management strategies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and also grew up in New Orleans.

"There's so few examples that we can draw on in this country, I don't know that anybody knows exactly what the steps are," Potter said.

Restoring the city's infrastructure, including sewer and water, is critical to avoiding a public health disaster. Early tests on the floodwater showed high...

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