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Ideas Floated for Hardening New Orleans Storm Defenses

Publication Date: 30-JAN-06
Author: Angelle Bergeron in New Orleans
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Even as plans to build interim gates and bypass pumps at the mouths of three big stormwater outfall canals in New Orleans advance, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is testing a new concept to block the canals with racks of ship propellers to jet water from the city in huge volumes, holding back storm surges in the process.
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