The Sewerage and Water Board is inspecting its pump stations, preparing to bring the flooded ones back online as soon as possible, Naomi says."Some are already working, but they're in areas that are not affected right now," he added.
A power station on Claiborne Ave., near the Jefferson Parish line, is critical to the effort, engineers said. The station, which was flooded and knocked offline, supplies 60% of the power to S&WB pumping stations.
"It's a specially designed system, dedicated to the pumping system. It runs on 25 cycles. It's old, but the Corps and the Sewerage and Water Board just spent a lot of money making sure it's in good running order."
The station, and a high-capacity pump station, took on water, but are on relatively high ground, he said. Crews will place about 1,000 bags of cement around the station's perimeter and pump it dry before restarting the power, Naomi said. He was not sure how soon that will be, however.
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just curious, now that the water is leaving the city, just where is it going? Of course it will end up in the gulf and considering the vivid descriptions we have been given as to its contents, just what kind of impact will that have in the gulf? Sort of reminds me of the flooding after hurricane floyd here in eastern NC and the pigs floating down the river.....which ends up in the Atlantic Ocean.