Ninth Ward residents protest planned facility at Alabo Street Wharf

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The Port of New Orleans and Sunrise Foods are trying to convince a neighborhood that a grain facility at the Alabo Street Wharf will not be disruptive or dangerous, but some neighbors are skeptical.

The Port of New Orleans and Sunrise Foods claim that the project is not a grain terminal, but a grain loading facility. Some neighbors say either way, it won’t be good.

Outside the Sept. 22 meeting, dozens of Ninth Ward residents chanted against the planned facility at the Alabo Street Wharf…

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