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To: RaceBannon
"Garbage in, garbage out."

ALL the land area of New Orleans is NOT flooded, so your "200 square mile" number is bogus. Of the land area that IS flooded, we have no idea of the average depth, so your "model" is pretty much useless.

302 posted on 09/04/2005 6:46:55 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: Wonder Warthog

So, where are the 1000 pumps then?


303 posted on 09/04/2005 6:48:16 AM PDT by RaceBannon ((Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
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To: Wonder Warthog

I've thinking about this problem all week.

I think the flooded area is less than 60 sq miles (from guesses based on simulations and satellite photos)

And, the depth varies from 0 to 8 feet at the maximum flood. The water is now down to 0 to 6 feet feet from the pictures I've seen. LP is slowly draining lowering the level.

Therefore I figure 180 sq mile feet of water or 180*640 acre feet.

Pumping station #6, the largest one, can pump 850 cu ft per sec. or about one acre foot per minute. 60 acre feet per hour. If pumping station # 6 alone is all we have it would take about 2000 hours, or 80 days.

3 times pumping station #6 would do it in 27 days.

This range is pretty well in agreement with Corps estimates of 36 to 96 days after full pumping starts.


321 posted on 09/04/2005 11:38:05 AM PDT by John Jamieson (Hybrids are a highway around CAFE, that's all they're good for.)
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