Enshrouded in a grove of oak trees off St. Bernard Highway, the St. Bernard Parish Courthouse has been a fixture in St. Bernard Parish politics dating back to the Great Depression and the early days of Leander Perez.
Along with the rest of the parish, the courthouse was flooded during Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, and sat in 3 feet of water for weeks. Courthouse staff have been back at work in the building since late September 2005, at times operating in makeshift work spaces in the lobby and amid reams of soggy title records and lawsuits submerged by the floodwaters. But soon the entire operation will have to move to an alternate site, after contractors discovered elevated levels of mold throughout the walls and air ducts in the 70-year-old building.
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