{"id":5592,"date":"2011-09-19T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=5592"},"modified":"2011-09-18T22:38:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T03:38:17","slug":"pump-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/09\/pump-test\/","title":{"rendered":"pump test"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n[“On Tuesday, May 24, pump number eight at the West Closure Complex was successfully tested. There are a total of 11 pumps at the [Complex], and each can individually fill an olympic-sized swimming pool in less than a minute.” (Source<\/a>.)]<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n[While most of the Mississippi River flood control infrastructures that we have looked at have been intended to protect land downstream from floodwaters originating upstream, the Louisiana delta is, of course, just as vulnerable to water moving in from the Gulf, and the devastation produced by Katrina has spurred a large infrastructural building program aimed at replacing and upgrading the defenses that proved so inadequate in that storm. \u00a0(The Intracoastal Waterway<\/a> provides a point of particular vulnerability to inward-bound waters.) The West Closure Complex<\/a>, a massive infrastructural agglomeration composed of “\ufeffa navigable\u00a0floodgate, a\u00a0pumping station,\u00a0floodwalls,\u00a0sluice gates,\u00a0foreshore\u00a0protection, and an earthen\u00a0levee” is one of those protective works. \u00a0(The site of the Complex — then under construction — can be seen in the satellite image above.)<\/em><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

In 2009, as construction on the Complex began, <\/em>Popular Mechanics ran a piece<\/a> explaining how the Complex functions: “first,\u00a0operators will shut the 32-foot-tall, 225-foot-wide metal gates to block the surge [and] then they\u2019ll fire up the world\u2019s largest pumping station, which pulls 150,000 gallons of floodwater per second.”<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s instrumentality.<\/em><\/p>\n

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For more on the Complex, watch the Army Corp’s explanatory video here<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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