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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 05:02 PM
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50 of the pumps in NO were built in 1913.
I'm trying to find information about NO and the pumps. Very impressive. I had no idea what it takes to keep NO up and running. Every inch of rain water in has to be pumped out.

http://gatewayno.com/history/PUMPS.html

"In 1913, Albert Baldwin Wood, A Sewerage and Water Board engineer, developed the screw pump that gave New Orleans a fighting chance in the war against the water that surrounds it. Staying dry is quite a battle for a city below sea level, surrounded by the Mississippi River, Lake Pontchartrain and other bayous and swamps, and with one of the highest rainfall rates in the country. In 1928, Wood designed a 14-foot version of his pump. Almost 50 of Wood's originals are still in use in New Orleans today."
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Dover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 05:07 PM
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1. Heard that since the electricity is out the pumps have not been running
That's all I heard. Don't know how long that will be the case.
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 05:15 PM
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2. Looks like only one area is badly flooded - the eastern section.
Haven't heard exactly why yet.
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