Why wasn the flood gate located south of the Hero Pumping Station and a new pumping station constructed to handle the rain water discharge?
That plan was studied but, eliminated because of the size and cost of building an ancillary pumping station. Currently, eleven pumping stations discharge rain water into the Algiers and Harvey Canals. These stations have a combined capacity of approximately 23,000 cfs, which means that a pumping station of equal or greater capacity would have been required to accommodate the transfer of water from the restricted north side of the flood gate to the open water south side of the flood gate. This pumping station would have cost about $ 200 million (in 1996 dollars) and would be required to operate only when the flood gate was closed.
