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Vast Defenses Now Shielding New Orleans
By artappraiser on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 11:07pm |By John Schwartz, New York Times, June 14/15, 2012
NEW ORLEANS — Finally, there is a wall around this city.
Nearly seven years after flood waters from Hurricane Katrina gushed over New Orleans, $14.5 billion worth of civil works designed to block such surges is now in place — a 133-mile chain of levees, flood walls, gates and pumps too vast to take in at once, except perhaps from space [....]
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