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holding up? the federal government invested 4. #$4.7 billion in th flood protection system in louisiana for just this reason. so far they are performing as designed. they are being tested and we are being pushed. this is a monster storm. i credit the national weather service because they were right the whole time they told us what would happen so we were able to prepare for it the right way. and the levees are doing the flood walls, pump stations, all of these components, this complex system that new orleans is doing exactly what it was supposed to do. right. i think this has been a record wet year for louisiana, new orleans, second wettest on record. now this massive amount of rain, the storm surge on top of that. just how much water can the pumping system handle? what we do is the perimeter defense. one of our components is the west closure complex. the largest pump station in the world.
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differently than have been done ever. what we did hear a lot of public meetings and loc, where to put stuff. we listened to people. over 500 meetings with the public since katrina. not only did we do that, but engineer standards have changed. subsidence, sea level rise. the corps is the nation s premiere organization for science and engineering. when you take a look at what we did and brought to bear on this issue, i think america can be proud what have got done. the west closure complex is a billion-dollar facility with the biggest pumping station, not just in our country on the planet from, what i understand. yeah. you are absolutely right. it could fill an olympic swimming pool in four seconds. is it up and running? it we won t use that until tomorrow. the way the system is running, we won t need to not system into
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