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Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Purification
Thankfully, the waters in New Orleans are finally subsiding. Pumps are coming on line and the water levels are falling. We could use about a month of bright, sunny days to help with the effort.
It could still take 80 days to pump all the water from the city. Pump capacity is increasing, but there's no certainty that the repaired levees will hold:
The army corps said that the biggest pump, which can remove up to 285 cubic metres of water per second, was also turned on yesterday....But it was only operating at three cubic metres per second and was slowly being ramped up to full power. Officials fear that moving too quickly could put too much pressure on intact parts of the levee system, causing fresh flooding.
The USGS data on Lake Pontchartrain hasn't been updated since August 29. Someday soon I hope to find good news here.
A final question on water. Once New Orleans is pumped dry -- by Thanksgiving, if all goes well -- Lake Pontchartrain is going to be a giant toxic wash sitting about the city. How are we going to clean that mess up?
