Will The 17th Street Pump Station Make New Orleans Safer From Flooding?

Posted 3:01 PM, August 13, 2014, by
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It’s a $615 million dollar water pumping machine. And the goal is to make New Orleans safer if there’s ever another flood like the one after Hurricane Katrina. WGNO News with a Twist features guy Wild Bill Wood chats with one of the chiefs in charge of the pump project, US Army Corps of Engineers Deputy Commander, Lt. Col Austin Appleton.