Yes and a city up above the skeeters and at a key natural gateway between the heart of the US and the rest of the world would naturally grow as a very desirable place to live.
And because of this desirability the resident produced ...fill would continue to overcome the rate at which the city is sinking into the bayou, and further enhance the energy production of the ...fill. The future is so bright that there will come a day when the populace of NO will have no further need of any and all government programs that require transfusions of taxpayer funds and even tubs of Heineken will be free..