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Letters: In a paved-over city, flooding will happen no matter when we start the pumps

1+ mon, 3+ week ago (201+ words) Recently, it seemed every news outlet led with some variation on the headline, “SWB worker fails to turn on pumps for 45 minutes and the city floods.” Headlines like this make everyone dumber and make a solution further away. Flooding was…...

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Letters: Nonpolitical flood authorityâs progress in danger | Opinion | theadvocate.com

2+ mon, 3+ week ago (258+ words) After Hurricane Katrina, the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East was created by legislation as a nonpolitical authority of experts to focus on decreasing the possibility of catastrophic flooding. That has resulted in a reduction of flood threats to the New…...