Posted on 08/12/2017 9:58:32 AM PDT by PROCON
New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board director Cedric Grant blamed widespread flooding over the weekend on climate change, but it wasnt long before news broke that broken water pumps were actually to blame.
Throughout the week, media reports have shown that New Orleanss antiquated water pumping system failed to keep flooding at bay, and the problem hasnt been resolved.
The mayors office warned Thursday morning a fire had taken out a turbine that powers most water pumping stations in the East Bank of New Orleans.
With more heavy rain forecast for this week, Mayor Mitch Landrieu is asking residents to prepare for flooding.
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Lived in Audobon Park for a little less than a year, decent place but I walked over to the river levee on day and noticed what looked like the river was higher than my living side. I say let the gators have it back
More #FakeNews, otherwise known as lying, and this time from someone other than a news outlet.
JoMa
I wouldn’t live in a city where my not being flooded was dependent on a gov’t employee.
Oh. A negro. I sure am glad he wasn't a white man, or this would be a big disaster worthy of an extensive investigation.
Well, wait a minute. Trump's a white man. This happened because... Trump.
I guess those Confederate statues weren’t such a big problem after all. FNOLA.
If you made this stuff up, no one would believe you. How many dysfunctional cities does it take to demonstrate that Democrats are incapable of governing.
#31 The new Atlantis.....
If we can’t blame climate change, how will Fat Albert Gore make any money off the disaster?
I think New Orleans was originally above water.
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Yep. The following article explains some of the reasons much of the city
is now below sea level.
snip:
By the 1930s, a metropolis that originally lay above sea level saw one-third of
its land surface sink below that level.
By the 2000s, roughly half of the metropolis was below sea level — by 3 to 6 feet
in parts of Broadmoor, 5 to 8 feet in parts of Lakeview and Gentilly, and 6 to 12 feet
in parts of Metairie and New Orleans East.
http://www.nola.com/homegarden/index.ssf/2015/02/shifting_doorframes_cracking_d.html
It is thus at least arguable that having a port and a community to support it makes sense at the site of N.O. until the river abandon's it, albeit not so large a community. But the implementation of its flood defenses have long been victimized by the local brand of corrupt politics. Katrina's fix for that hasn't been allowed to stand. They reconstructed housing on the lower land for the lower class voting block. Without that housing the electorate of a downsized N.O. would have been different and what was left might have been more competently defended.
A dollar will getcha two, but I’d guess there will be a follow-up story about this fellow and his management of the $$$.
It must be so easy to be a moron, simpleton liberal.
Yes, and Yes and more.
The local press there reviewed this and it is an OLD story. Because N.O. sits mostly below sea level behind levees in heavy rains it fills up and must be pumped out. The pumps mostly predate WWII. Most were designed to run on 25Hz power and they had a dedicated power plant to produce that for them. There were originally 5 turbines generating 25Hz power. Turbine #6, generating 60Hz power was added later to power other functions and as a backup. #6 is, as of Wednesday, the only turbine operational and it's not properly suited for the pumps. In principle 60Hz power can be converted to and from 25Hz. But would a system designed with 5 sources of 25Hz have in place the capacity to convert enough 60Hz to run everything, either from #6 or from the grid? I doubt it and I doubt enough conversion capacity can be added quickly.
So what happened to #1-5? Original #2 was mothballed "decades ago" for reasons I don't now. #4 was damaged in Katrina and is STILL being refurbished with EDT of December! #4 and #5 went down in May and July respectively and are still under repair. #1 went down to a fire Wednesday. So obviously the panicking should have started in May, at the latest, when one failed and the remaining two were thus being pushed harder.
Mr. Mayor, who's president of the board in charge of the system and who hand picked most of its membership bragging he'd fix things, is now trying to deflect any responsibility onto 'the board.' Happily that deflection doesn't seem to be working well in the press. However, I haven't seen a political breakdown on who was affected by the recent flooding. His anti-statue base may not respond to anything less than personal sink or swim lessons.
Stupid question. Why didn't the NOLA pols press to have everything (pumping/support stations) brought up to modern standards while NOLA was recovering [while Congress was probably willing to most or all of it]?
The country knew N.O. well enough to NOT give it a complete blank check. The corrupt pols and the media were all concerned about restoring housing in places that never should have had housing for populations that could have as productively been welfared above sea level some where else. Not to mention the back pressures from the temporary 'elses' that soon wanted to give them back. Those voices were probably heard above the engineers who understood the hydrological realities and the tech needs to deal with them. My advice after Katrina, from a distance, was to follow an old, successful, precedent from the Galveston Flood: the low areas of that island were built up several feet with dredged fill over 20 years to where they were safe from flooding. Chicago offers a similar precedent, having been raised much higher in the 1800s to solve drainage problems. In N.O. they might add barged overburden from coal country to the fill. Declare large flooded areas total insurance losses and take the property for the 'insurance' payouts. Or let the current owners keep what would eventually be valuable land, but not interfere with it until the government upgrade was complete, for a smaller payout. They could sell or borrow off their rights at whatever prices the market provided.
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