Progress Draining New Orleans

I find the engineering aspects of the Hurricane recovery particularly interesting.

Five new pumps are being delivered for use in both canals, and four more pumps are being loaned for pumping at the 17th Street Canal.

"The water is receding now. We just have a long ways to go," Mike Rogers, a disaster relief coordinator with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said late Sunday afternoon.

He said work at the 17th Street Canal was nearly done, and once that was finished, it would be time to get ready to start pumping.

Water was coming down rapidly in eastern New Orleans, where 21 pumps had been added to the three at work there a day earlier, Rogers said.