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The swimming pool now looks like a cesspool. Thousands of stagnant pools across the city…

A fire-damaged apartment building with a collapsed roof and exposed chimneys stands behind a stagnant, murky swimming pool reflecting the structure's charred upper floors.

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Ten Weeks after Katrina - 11.07.05

The swimming pool now looks like a cesspool. Thousands of stagnant pools across the city will make excellent breeding grounds for a thriving mosquito population in 2006. It's going to be a touch year with mosquitoes if the city doesn't keep up on its spraying program.

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“The swimming pool now looks like a cesspool. Thousands of stagnant pools across the city…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/3667.