[NCC-1701]

I asked this on another thread. How do you dispose of an entire city? A safe estimate would be that 85 to 90 percent of all structures will have to be razed.
That's going to be a HUGE pile of debris. Just how do you throw out an entire major city? That's way on down the road, but that's going to have to be addressed.

Prayers and support to those that was and is in harms way.

[GOP_Proud]

Make it the beginning of the landfill to raise it above sea level?

[jbstrick]

charity Hospital Nurse on Hannity.

She does not confirm any of the reports we were hearing earlier.

[Tuxedo]

How to dispose of the city? Rather easy, open the river levee, let it fill up until it reaches the lake. Bring in helicopters with tons and tons of sack-crete and dump it on the water. Once it solidifies, the ground is no longer below sea level.

No, I am not being serious.

[metmom]

I was wondering that, too. I've been looking at the photos on Fox and can't believe the mess! Just read an article on Fox that said they hope the water will seep out of the city at the rate of one half inch per hour. That's a foot a day for 20 feet of water. Wow! What kind of rot can happen in that time.

[berkeleybeej]

That's going to be a HUGE pile of debris. Just how do you throw out an entire major city?

Maybe they can use the debris to raise the place above sea level. :)

[rolling_stone]

I asked this on another thread. How do you dispose of an entire city? A safe estimate would be that 85 to 90 percent of all structures will have to be razed. That's going to be a HUGE pile of debris. Just how do you throw out an entire major city? That's way on down the road, but that's going to have to be addressed.

Offer illegal aliens all the free building materials as long as they truck it south with them back to Mexico.it will be an improvement on their shanty towns and clean up the debris at the same time plus the freebee of having the illegals take themselves out of our country. That or burn it..

[WoofDog123]

maybe reduce/compact and use the debris to raise the level of the city?

[Thud]

Not to mention that the whole site will become the No. 1 Superfund Toxic Waste Site. The federal government doesn't have the money to decontaminate what had been New Orleans when the water is finally all pumped out. The French Quarter maybe, but not the large long-term flooded areas of the greater New Orleans Metropolitan Area.

IF New Orleans is rebuilt, most of it will have to be on some new location where the ground isn't contaminated which, given that the toxic contamination is caused by flooding, can only be on higher ground. Right now the law is that federal funds may not be used, even for loans, for building on toxic contaminated sites. Only the federal government itself is exempt from that requirement, and then only for some projects.