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  2. Drainage in New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    As of 2017, the New Orleans pumping system - operated by the Sewerage and Water Board - can pump water out of the city at a rate of more than 45,000 cubic feet (1,300 m 3) per second. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The capacity is also frequently described as 1 inch (2.5 cm) in the first hour of rainfall followed by 0.5 inches (1.3 cm) per hour afterward. [ 2 ]

  3. New Orleans Outfall Canals - Wikipedia

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    Water overtopped and breached the levees along the outfall canals and the Sewerage and Water Board and the Orleans Levee District raised the levees an estimated three feet after those hurricanes. However, some of these levees had subsided by as much as 10 feet (3.0 m) during their nearly 100-year existence.

  4. Balloon hits a New Orleans power line and triggers boil water ...

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    Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans crews switched over to backup power and got additional pumps online, "but not before the water pressure fell below the threshold for issuing a precautionary ...

  5. Water woes linger in New Orleans after wayward balloon ... - AOL

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    Utility companies have warned for years about the hazards of Mylar balloons and that message resounded Thursday across New Orleans as most of the city's nearly 370,000 residents were under a boil ...

  6. Much of New Orleans’ water might be spared from ... - AOL

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    The saltwater wedge threatening New Orleans drinking water has been delayed by several weeks in its upstream trek on the Mississippi River thanks to better-than-forecast river flows last month ...

  7. Orleans Canal - Wikipedia

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    Completion of the floodwall would have likely caused the brick walls of the old pump station to fail unless they had been significantly reinforced. The presence of this spillway (gap) was a sore spot on the record of the Orleans Levee Board and the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board. Had the canal walls of the 17th Street Canal and the London ...

  8. Gov. Landry hopeful for full FEMA relief from Francine ... - AOL

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    The governor was asked whether he would make good on his promise to provide the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans $29 million it has requested from the state to cover the remaining cost of a ...

  9. Bayou St. John - Wikipedia

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    In the summer of 1955, the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board temporarily drained the Bayou, to clean out debris and material that was causing foul odors. Since then, the Bayou has been a picturesque body of water with small earthen levees on either side, forming a narrow park space in the city.

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