Laura Jayne had been waiting a year for a local nonprofit to install a rain barrel at her Hollygrove home. She could use it to grow her budding garden and shave a few dollars off her water bill in the process.

A floral-painted container finally arrived Wednesday morning, as members of Green Light New Orleans and Entergy New Orleans volunteers attached the barrel to the side of her home.

In honor of the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the environmental organization that began just after the storm teamed up with around 40 Entergy volunteers to install roughly a dozen rain barrels at houses around the Hollygrove, Leonidas and the Fontainebleau neighborhoods on Wednesday. Green Light has placed over 3,000 rain barrels across the New Orleans area since 2015. The containers are hard

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