PUMP IT UP!

Drainage Canal Pipe, Baton Rouge LA 2007 from Land's End series.

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The U.S. Army Corps. Of Engineers , charged with protecting the city of New Orleans from flooding, it has been reported spent hundreds of millions of dollars on unproven pumps that will most likely need to replaced in 2012, at a cost of $430 million!

Full story:

www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-08-25-pumps-new-orleans_N.htm