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From: Rock_nj	8/31/2005 8:41:57 AM
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Who were the genius team of engineers who decided to rely on electric pumps fed by the fragile power grid to keep New Orleans dry during a hurricane?!? That is a naturally failing point in the flood control plan. The pumps should have been designed to operate on backup power during severe storms that were likely to knock out electricity. Also, the flood walls could have been enhanced over the years since they were first built, in order to prevent or minimize catatrophic failures like we've been seeing. The biggest problem now is Lake Pontchatrain has risen so much with flood waters that it's causing the levees to fail and the water is finding a level in the below sea-level city of New Orleans. Did it ever occur to them that perhaps they needed to build a spill-over flood control project for Lake Pontchatrain to relieve the stress on the level system? For example, if the lake went one foot above its normal level, the waters would naturally flow through a channel or large pipe to a point beyond the city and into the Gulf or some other water body. This was a natural disaster that could have been anticipated. New Orleans is suffering from decades of neglect to their flood control plans and a lack of planning and action.

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