"Hank Pagel" wrote:
4 million gallons in seven hours .............. now that's a
waterfall!


Actually, for the time, it was fantastic.

Today, however, technology permits vastly more water to be pumped. Here in
New Orleans, a city below the level of the sea and the river, we have 90
miles of canals that collect the water (ground water and rain water) and
carry it to 22 pumping stations where it's pumped into Lake Pontchartrain
and the Mississippi River (see
http://www.swbnola.org/Resources/drain_info.htm ). Here's the info about the
current capacity:

"The system's pumping capacity is over 29 billion gallons a day, enough to
empty a lake 10 square miles by 13.5 feet deep every 24 hours. That flow
rate (over 45,000 cubic feet per second) is more than the flow rate of the
Ohio River, the nation's fifth largest river."


Michael Fermanis
New Orleans, Louisiana USA (Remove the RICE to reply)
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