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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (250232)	9/7/2005 7:55:24 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576642

"Obviously, not enough." It's a lot of water. A levee breach or overtopping is a nightmare scenario because you just can't have enough pumps. And those pumps are going to be working hard enough where they have to be worrying about them failing under the load. And it isn't like you can just drop by Home Depot and pick one up, they are built to order. It depends on what you mean by "toxic". In an ideal world, it would be best to treat the stuff. But that isn't practical. To top it off, there is a Superfund site inside the city. If it is typical of the ones they have in Texas, no one really knows what is in there. Keeping records just wasn't done until recently and some really strange stuff was brewed up during WWII. They just put a clay cap over it and hoped for the best. If that clay has eroded, well... But, the longer it sits, the more household chemicals, stored hydrocarbons, crap in flooded businesses and whatever lies under the clay cap will get into the water. It makes for an interesting situation.