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What's the Engineering Solution to NOLA Pumping?
Posted on 8/11/17 at 5:25 am
Posted on 8/11/17 at 5:25 am
Forget about the politics and finger pointing for a moment.
If you were project engineer with a reasonable budget (and your own hand picked staff), what would you do?
If you were project engineer with a reasonable budget (and your own hand picked staff), what would you do?
This post was edited on 8/11/17 at 5:27 am
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Posted on 8/11/17 at 5:26 am to JudgeHolden
Fix the broken pumps. Profit.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 5:30 am to JudgeHolden
reddit link to pdf
looks to be a request from 2011 to fix the power plant for the pumps. I guess Mitch scrapped it.
looks to be a request from 2011 to fix the power plant for the pumps. I guess Mitch scrapped it.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 5:32 am to Placebeaux
What was the rfq for? Replacing/repairing what they already had or building new shite?
Posted on 8/11/17 at 5:32 am to Placebeaux
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Placebeaux
Saw that. Interesting. Looks like it would increase the power of the turbines that generate the electricity refit some of them. Would that solve the problem?
Posted on 8/11/17 at 5:33 am to JudgeHolden
Venice
Posted on 8/11/17 at 5:39 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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What was the rfq for? Replacing/repairing what they already had or building new shite?
Posted on 8/11/17 at 5:42 am to JudgeHolden
Perform routine maintenance and not buy pumps from a politically active (and only) vendor in the area. Oh, and find people who actually have the knowledge and background to ensure said pumps and turbines we're in working order.
Pretty common sense to me.
Pretty common sense to me.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 5:43 am to JudgeHolden
Yea ok Mitch probably laughed when he saw the bids for that job 
Just putting in a 15MW turbine was probably a big enough bill to make him round file them all.
Just putting in a 15MW turbine was probably a big enough bill to make him round file them all.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 5:44 am to baseballmind1212
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Perform routine maintenance and not buy pumps from a politically active (and only) vendor in the area. Oh, and find people who actually have the knowledge and background to ensure said pumps and turbines we're in working order.
Ok. So it's operational problems, not a design flaw? Not arguing with you, just trying to really understand what the problem is.
I get that moving tons of water in a short time isn't easy. But it seems to me that the laws of mechanics and hydraulics have not changed much in a hundred years. I'd think they would have it figured out.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 5:46 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Looks like that budget was going to be $141,175,000.
Did NOLA get the money and not use it? Or did the FEMA money for this one not come through?
Did NOLA get the money and not use it? Or did the FEMA money for this one not come through?
Posted on 8/11/17 at 5:46 am to JudgeHolden
Close all exits on Baton Rouge interstates and fill hole with dirt.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 5:47 am to JudgeHolden
Find another job where I'm not expected to pump out the equivalent of a swimming pool with a few water guns.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 5:50 am to MBclass83
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Close all exits on . . . interstates
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MBclass83
Baton Rouge
This checks out.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 5:51 am to PrivatePublic
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Find another job where I'm not expected to pump out the equivalent of a swimming pool with a few water guns.
This is legit what I am trying to figure out. Is it undercapacity in the system, or some other design problem? Or is it just impossible?
Posted on 8/11/17 at 6:07 am to JudgeHolden
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Did NOLA get the money and not use it? Or did the FEMA money for this one not come through?
A lot of that money was........missing. Maybe Ray Nagin knows.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 6:09 am to JudgeHolden
The problem isn't just with the pumps. It's with everything. You have to minimize reliance on pumps, which means you have to slow/stop subsidence, which means you have to accept a new stormwater paradigm that radically changes the urban design of the city. It isn't just an engineering problem. It's a societal acceptance problem too.
GNO Urban Water Plan
GNO Urban Water Plan
This post was edited on 8/11/17 at 6:10 am
Posted on 8/11/17 at 6:25 am to JudgeHolden
Turn the sun down a bit to stop the global warming causing this.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 6:29 am to JudgeHolden
Need remove more statues first
Posted on 8/11/17 at 6:31 am to MBclass83
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Close all exits on Baton Rouge interstates and fill hole with water.
FIFY
Just let that cesspool fill up already
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