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  • New Orleans 'Unwatering' Task Force Speeds Progress (Author's words not mine)

    09/15/2005 5:43:10 PM PDT · by SandRat · 7 replies · 479+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | Sep 15, 2005 | Jim Garamone
    NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 15, 2005 – The Crescent City will be dry long before originally thought, the commander of Task Force Unwatering said here Sept. 14. "All I'm thinking about is water," said Army Col. Duane Gapinski, commander of the Army Corps of Engineers task force that is draining the floodwaters from New Orleans. The corps has made incredible progress, officials said. Since Hurricane Katrina flooded the city Aug. 30, engineers and workers have been feverishly damming up breached levees, strengthening canal walls and getting huge pumps on line. The results are plain to see. "Right now in the metropolitan...