Rusty
posted by mcbrid35 at
5:01 PM
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After Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers agreed to assume full responsibility for repair of New Orleans' drainage pumps, as well as to install new floodgate pumps. Almost ten years later, much work remains undone, or is having to be redone. I am here to document that work, and to push them to do it right.
Previous
- The gates are too short
- Poundfoolish, Part 1
- Heads up
- How much is left in the till?
- The Corps' invented crisis
- Corps pants a raging inferno
- The story so far
- Parsing: Corps publicly commits to fix outfall can...
- Slippage - Part 2
- Slippage
2 Comments:
Thanks man.
Silly question I know, but, is that a photo of a pump mechanism currently installed on one of our outfall canals?
Some of us need to be led by the hand with captions.
By
Editilla~New Orleans Ladder, at April 06, 2010 5:41 AM
Let me guess, what I'm looking at is the power piping to an M.W.I. hydraulic pump. The greasy spots near the fittings and flanges are leaking hydraulic fluid.
What do I get for a prize?
This photo shows what it's supposed to look like without corrosion:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/395/3790/1600/Floodgate%20pumps.jpg
There's a saying: rust never sleeps...
By
Clay, at April 06, 2010 5:14 PM
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