Is this a crazy request? The inlet to Whiteoak is not that far from Addicks.

Would it be possible to bring some pumping units to N side of Addicks and transfer to the inlet of white Oak Bayou near Jones Rd & 290?

They drain separately - white oak discharges into Buffalo Bayou near downtown.

Is this doable or is this stupid? Some fellow Ags at Universal, Pro Petro Archer or say Pioneer could if they wanted to make this happen.

I have several friends in W memorial area whose homes' destruction is assured, especially with water staying in there for the next 10-15 days.

There's got to be something we can do rather than just sitting on our ah$ses.

We're at what, Day 5?, of standing water in the homes? At some point, do you almost hope the house is totally destroyed and you can just build from the ground up instead of trying to rehabilitate a place in terrible condition?

One thing people aren't really talking about is that all of those homes are going to have a significant amount of foundation issues. That alone may be unfixable. We have friends south of memorial, but north of the bayou, who are already seeing large cracks/foundation issues and they didn't even get water in their house.

Not sure if doable, but White Oak is way way down. I could see the concrete liner when I went across the Yale Street bridge this morning.

You would think that they are working up scenarios where they could pump somewhere.

That's what I was afraid of. The HP required.

So frustrating watching this unfold

skinny2001 said:

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That's what I was afraid of. The HP required.

So frustrating watching this unfold

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New Orleans just installed 17 pumps at a cost of $615 million that will keep the city from flooding.

The larger pumps will pump 1800 cfs, which means that four of them could pump the water out of Addicks.

New Orleans Monster Pumps

Are we at a point where we need to put in some permanent pipelines and massive pumps to get water out of the creeks and bayous more quickly and into the bay.

Continued development in water sheds is just going to make things worse.

VaultingChemist said:

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skinny2001 said:

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That's what I was afraid of. The HP required.

So frustrating watching this unfold

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New Orleans just installed 17 pumps at a cost of $615 million that will keep the city from flooding.

The larger pumps will pump 1800 cfs, which means that four of them could pump the water out of Addicks.

New Orleans Monster Pumps

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But they aren't pumping very far, and these are primarily designed to get water moved up hill.

Where would they pump the water from the Katy area that it isn't already draining to with gravity? Same problem for Friendswood, Dickinson, Kingwood, and every other area that flooded. The water was moving through to lower lying areas, there was just so much it overwhelmed all the existing creeks. Where the New Orleans problem was they are below sea level so water wants to flow in rather than out in some areas.

If you try converting some of the watershed lakes into flood control lakes, that would severely limit water supplies the city and surrounding areas needs. Seems a very tough problem to solve.