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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Science

World’s Biggest Water Pump Under Construction In New Orleans

8:20AM John Herrman | The Army Corps of Engineers has broken ground on a serious construction project: a 570,000-litre-per-second, $US500 million pumping station charged with keeping the city of New Orleans a little, uh, dryer than it has been in the last few years. More »
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Design

Gargantuan NOAH ‘Arc’ Proposed To New Orleans With Straight Face

12:33AM Mark Wilson | How do you know when your building plan has gotten unnecessarily crazy and pretentious? When it’s named after a Biblical figure who was fabled to save life as we know it…that might be a clue. More »
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