[Wonder Warthog]

"Somebody did the math for you above. Either you understand it or you don't."

Which one--the one that claimed N.O. was 4000+ square miles, or the one that claims it is 200 square miles--both of which are wrong on AT LEAST the amount of land area that needs to be pumped out.

"Having a BS in ME with a concentration in Fluid Thermal systems and subsequently having worked for Ingersoll Dresser Pump before getting my MS in Mechanical I will say you are pissing in the ocean with pumps like that. First rain you get will remove all the progress you make and it rains a great deal in NO.

Good for you. Now, why isn't a million gallons a minute useful?? Forget that any single pump only does 1000 gallons /minute. And, by the way, I'm FROM Louisiana, so I know just how much it rains.

Another poster (#345) says that 1,000,000 gallons a minute is about equal to the capacity of the current N.O. fixed-base pump system.

[Nov3]

Read the PDFs linked in the first 250 posts on the pumping system. Some of the pumps are half that alone. Now I really don't have time to argue it anymore. We learned about the pumps in school. They are an engineering marvel and have been copied around the world.

They need to blast the low levee like they are talking about get the motors above water and put them back in service. After that it will take weeks. They needed the huge pumps for a reason.

[Nov3]

P.s The 1890 plan has the drainage system having a capacity of over 8,000,000 gallons per minute. I don't know what it eventually grew to.