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  • World's largest pump station will open for tours Thursday, Saturday

    10/14/2015 2:02:51 PM PDT · by BBell · 8 replies
    NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune ^ | 10/14/15 | Andrea Shaw, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
    The world's largest drainage pump station will be open to the public Thursday (Oct. 15) and Saturday (Oct. 17) for the first time in its four-year history. Tours of the $1.1 billion West Closure Complex in Plaquemines Parish will be conducted by the West Bank levee authority to educate residents about the area's hurricane protection system in advance of a tax election in November.On Nov. 21, West Jefferson residents will be asked to consider a 5.5-mill tax increase that would raise an additional $5 million a year. Algiers voters will be asked to renew a 6.35-mill tax for 30 years...