Posted on 10/14/2015 2:02:51 PM PDT by BBell
The world's largest drainage pump station will be open to the public Thursday (Oct. 15) and Saturday (Oct. 17) for the first time in its four-year history. Tours of the $1.1 billion West Closure Complex in Plaquemines Parish will be conducted by the West Bank levee authority to educate residents about the area's hurricane protection system in advance of a tax election in November.
On Nov. 21, West Jefferson residents will be asked to consider a 5.5-mill tax increase that would raise an additional $5 million a year. Algiers voters will be asked to renew a 6.35-mill tax for 30 years that brings in $1.2 million annually.
The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-West has said the taxes are needed to pay for maintenance of nearly 80 miles of levees, floodgates and floodwalls, the mammoth pump station and work required to maintain federal certification.
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I will try to go and check out this beast.
Does this pump into Lake Posi-Traction?
Will there be terrorists on the tour?
Thank you. Cool pictures where did you get them?
This thing appears to be south of New Orleans and the Mississipi, your lake is north.
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Beautiful
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