[StBernard] St. Bernard may have close to 20,000 residents now

[Westley Annis]

CHALMETTE, La. St. Bernard Parish president Junior Rodriguez says there are
now just under 20-thousand residents back in the parish.

Figures compiled by the parish's community development department estimate
about 19-thousand-500 residents are living in FEMA trailers, homes,
apartments and boats in the parish.

St. Bernard had about 67-thousand residents before Hurricane Katrina.

There have also been about 76-hundred building permits requested for
structural modifications, about 74-hundred permits requested for electrical
work, and about one-thousand permits for gas work and some 3-thousand-800
permits for electricity in FEMA trailers.

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