Pumping New Orleans

[siccjay]

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I'm curious, what would your reponse be to the citizens who live there saying that will take too long for them to begin rebuilding their homes and lives?

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They need to move.

Pumping this water back into the lake/gulf is going to [censored] a lot of [censored] up.

[swede123]

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I'm curious, what would your reponse be to the citizens who live there saying that will take too long for them to begin rebuilding their homes and lives?

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Collect the insurance and move .

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This would be the key part of your statement, which also applies to the morons living on the beaches of Florida, rebuilding their mansions after every hurricane comes through.

Swede

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Do you realize how much water we're talking about?

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If it is spread out over a very wide area, it would easily get evaporated. Remember that they are not pumped out all at once but rather pumped out slowly. Also, New Orleans is very hot right now. The authorities should be told about my strategy. Once the the thing evaporates then there would be no more concerns.

[MEbenhoe]

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Do you realize how much water we're talking about?

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If it is spread out over a very wide area, it would easily get evaporated. Remember that they are not pumped out all at once but rather pumped out slowly. Also, New Orleans is very hot right now. The authorities should be told about my strategy. Once the the thing evaporates then there would be no more concerns.

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You didnt exactly get A's in science classes did you?

[jakethebake]

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Do you realize how much water we're talking about?

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If it is spread out over a very wide area, it would easily get evaporated. Remember that they are not pumped out all at once but rather pumped out slowly. Also, New Orleans is very hot right now. The authorities should be told about my strategy. Once the the thing evaporates then there would be no more concerns.

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This is exactly point. Clearly it has to be an area several times larger than the city itself. Just how wide an area do you think and where do you find an area this big.

[swede123]

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Do you realize how much water we're talking about?

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If it is spread out over a very wide area, it would easily get evaporated. Remember that they are not pumped out all at once but rather pumped out slowly. Also, New Orleans is very hot right now. The authorities should be told about my strategy. Once the the thing evaporates then there would be no more concerns.

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This is exactly point. Clearly it has to be an area several times larger than the city itself. Just how wide an area do you think and where do you find an area this big.

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Clearly the answer is the surface of Mars. By utilizing the surface of the red planet the water would easily evaporate in little time. This solution would have the added benefit of poisoning any martians that are currently planning invasion strategies.

Swede

[HopeydaFish]

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They should dump it into a landfill where it would easily evaporate. Pumping it into the river is very stupid because it would just submerge and stay underwater forever. By pumping it to a shallow landfill it would evaporate and we would no longer have to be concerned with it.

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This is dumb on too many levels to ignore.

1) Where is this landfill? Is there just some open pit somewhere near NOLA that they can use? It's going to have to be relatively close, because the hoses for the pumps need to reach it.

2) Do you have any concept of how much water is involved here? The water is 20 feet deep in some places, and covers almost the entire city of NOLA, plus a good part of the surrounding area. There is no "landfill" big enough on this planet to accomodate this much water.

3) When the water evaporates, do you think all the pollutants in it just disappear? A good portion of those pollutants will evaporate with the water and will return to the earth as rain. The rest will sit on the ground as toxic ooze. Having the water evaporate won't make it less polluted. Pumping it into the Gulf of Mexico isn't an ideal solution, either, I realize. But it's the only feasible solution right now.

4) You then mention that the landfill has to be shallow so that the water evaporates. Well, it will *have* to be shallow, because the water table in NOLA is just a few feet down. This is why they bury bodies above ground in NOLA -- you can't dig a hole without hitting water. So now you need to find a landfill that is about 2 feet deep, that will accomodate water that is covering most of NOLA to a depth of 5-20 feet. So the landfill is going to have to be much much bigger than NOLA itself. Yeah, this is feasible.

[jakethebake]

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Clearly the answer is the surface of Mars. By utilizing the surface of the red planet the water would easily evaporate in little time. This solution would have the added benefit of poisoning any martians that are currently planning invasion strategies. Swede

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Excellent idea. We'll start work on the hose immediately. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Read my lips. The water is not being pumped out all at once. Therefore, they do not have to be evaporated all at once after they just got pumped out. Hence, you don't need that big a space to spread them out. Certainly not an area larger than the city itself.

[swede123]

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Read my lips.

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While this isn't exactly a cool statement if you are speaking to someone in person, it becomes even less cool when written on a message board.

Swede