"So what they would do is build the tunnel, hit the drainage system, and then use that drainage system to come up on the US side."
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"The parking lot has a great drainage system," Williams said.
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No urban drainage system can handle this type of deluge.
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Sandwiched in the middle is a vast underground drainage system.
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The city has struggled with its unique drainage system for years.
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Ask yourself: What hypothetical situation does my drainage system need to withstand?
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Local residents have blamed the city's bad drainage system for the massive flooding.
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On Friday, it receded quickly, making him hopeful the drainage system is better.
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New Orleans officials outlined steps to bolster the city's pump and drainage system.
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The incident happened when they were cleaning the plant's drainage system, it added.
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A portion of that money is earmarked for drainage system repairs, CNN affiliate WGNO reported.
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They trudged through sewage water that burst through the drainage system to get to shelter.
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You can also have a sump pump and a drainage system installed around the house.
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He searches for a drainage system, and I wander away, fingering pipe joints and chain-link.
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The Lestinas live next to Dahl's Meat Locker, and the two buildings share a drainage system.
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The Institutions do not have problems of flooding, due to the drainage system that they have.
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Your gutters direct water away from your roof and siding, and down into the drainage system.
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The drainage system and basin worked well during heavy rains earlier this year, Mr. Simango said.
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Ghassan Korban, the board's executive director, has made fixing the city's drainage system a top priority.
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"My friends aren't interested in talking to me about the drainage system in Houston," said McClinton.
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The one she imagines is, literally, the grated drainage system on her street — a touch of naiveté.
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Most Houstonians casually accept this drainage system that keeps them dry, albeit precariously, in a former wetland.
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Rains and a high tide in the western coastal city threaten to overload an aging drainage system.
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Now it turns out that there are more valuables to be found in the country's drainage system.
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Police guard open manholes into the drainage system through which Chapo initially escaped capture It didn't work.
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The crisis involves the city's interior drainage system, a vast 200-mile chain of canals and pipes.
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A drainage system had unintended consequences Later, a "sophisticated municipal drainage system installed around 1900 allowed the city to spread onto former marshes but also starved the land of replenishing sediment" and removed water from the soil, explains geographer Rich Campanella, a professor in Tulane University's School of Architecture.
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Ever since then, his condition has been managed thanks to a surgically implanted drainage system called a shunt.
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Harvey's also causing concern in New Orleans, where heavy rains could overwhelm the city's already-compromised drainage system.
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City leaders at first said the drainage system was "operating at its maximum capabilities," CNN affiliate WDSU reported.
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Some neighborhoods flooded earlier this month during a deluge that exposed problems with the city's pump and drainage system.
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Wylie's home flooded earlier this month during a deluge that exposed problems with the city's pump and drainage system.
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Now concerns have shifted to the city's antiquated and hobbled interior-drainage system, which has been plagued by breakdowns.
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"But what they don't handle well is when a downpour overwhelms a local storm-water drainage system," she said.
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Two area reservoirs will for at least another 10 days release water into an overflowing drainage system to relieve pressure.
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They found that a widespread and complicated drainage system made of lakes and rivers has existed across Antarctica for decades.
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A later city statement said inspectors were looking at the airport stormwater drainage system to see whether there were obstructions.
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Torrential rains overwhelmed the drainage system in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, creating a devastating flood on August 14th.
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He said the drainage system had reached capacity Wednesday and encouraged residents in flood-prone areas to closely monitor conditions.
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Each house also has a drainage system, said the listing agent, Paul Johansen, a licensed associate broker at Stribling & Associates.
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As the city has expanded into nearby wetlands, a natural drainage system has been destroyed, increasing the risk of floods.
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This means that water in the drainage system that would otherwise empty into the bay remains trapped in the city.
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Nogales is also connected to its neighbor across the border in Arizona, also called Nogales, by a common drainage system.
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Police officers took me into the drainage system and showed me several smuggling tunnels that had been burrowed off it.
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The MTA says trains were running normally that night, since the trackbed drainage system was able to control the excess water.
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State Route 35 was completely rebuilt with a new drainage system and pavement that will last for the next 50 years.
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And though water piled up briefly on some streets, the storm was a good test of the drainage system, Edwards said.
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Since 2012, workfare participants have built a small bridge, added a drainage system, and renovated the town hall and sports fields.
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The floodwaters overwhelmed the campus drainage system and water began to fill the football stadium, nearby baseball stadium and surrounding parking lots.
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The rain tested the drainage system -- not the chain of levees, flood walls and pumps that the federal government built after Katrina.
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In 2010, city voters narrowly passed a major financing mechanism, ReBuild Houston, to improve roads and an out-of-date drainage system.
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Fields are being raised above flood level, with a drainage system, a foot of clean soil, synthetic turf and a retaining wall.
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In many cities, it goes into the drainage system, which then runs into the sewage system, and the sewage systems get overrun.
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The river is being cleared of rubbish and its original course restored to provide a natural drainage system during floods and storm surges.
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For example, in August he toured parts of the drainage system and found some areas so clogged with soil that trees were growing.
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Public transport is limited and the drainage system is widely acknowledged to be inadequate, according to local business people and international development agencies.
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In 2014, Guzman evaded capture by fleeing through a network of interconnected tunnels in the drainage system under Culiacan, the Sinaloa state capital.
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The work includes restoring a pond key to flood control and installing a drainage system, said the Ministry of Natural Resources and Labour.
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Nate's forecast track had shifted slightly by late Thursday morning, putting New Orleans -- and its compromised drainage system -- directly in the storm's sights.
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"Understanding the full condition and capabilities of the drainage system continues to be a top priority of our new administration," the board said.
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Emma Pantaleón (left) checks in on a construction crew making repairs to the drainage system that have been promised for more than five years.
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New Orleans in particular could be hit hard by the storm, as the drainage system is still being repaired following heavy flooding in August.
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The report also found that parts of the drainage system were clogged with vegetation or damaged due to trampling by large animals like cows.
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The 1,700-year-old tomb of the Lord of Sipan should be able to resist the floods because a drainage system has been installed.
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But nearly half of the city's population lives in slums without basic services and facilities like drinking water, garbage disposal or a proper drainage system.
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"There is no drainage system in the world that can handle that immediately," outgoing Sewerage & Water Board Executive Director Cedric Grant told CNN affiliate WDSU.
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Residents have been wary since the city's unique drainage system experienced critical deficiencies during heavy summer rainstorms, leading to the flooding of several hundred properties.
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The city's problems began last Saturday when the drainage system failed to keep up with a severe thunderstorm that brought nearly 10 inches of rain.
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Still, many Sierra Leoneans say the country's drainage system is insufficient and this is a main cause for most of the flooding in the country.
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The city's rainwater drainage system also is being extended at a cost of $667,000 and is due to be completed in five year's time, he said.
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It overwhelmed a less than functioning drainage system, exposed local government's limits to respond, and flooded neighborhoods to levels not seen since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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Guzmán, known for his penchant for tunnels, escaped out of a secret doorway behind a mirror in a ground floor dressing room into the city's drainage system.
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And because of where the city sit—surrounded by lakes, with a historically shitty drainage system—even 20 minutes of rain can cause the place to flood.
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Finally, SWIMS shoes feature a special drainage system, so that even if you do step in a puddle, water will be guided out and away with haste.
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At the recommendation of Peterson and Moore, they installed a new drainage system on the inside of the track to make the surface more resilient to storms.
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The heavy rains caused rivers and creeks to rise, and prevented the low-lying cities drainage system from clearing water fast enough to spare homes from flooding.
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Weeks ago, strong storms overwhelmed the city's unique drainage system, causing flooding at several hundred properties and exposing critical deficiencies among 100 large pumps that drain many neighborhoods.
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A bi-national inspection of an underground drainage system in Nogales, Arizona, came across a partially constructed tunnel extending from a cemetery in Sonora, Mexico, into US territory.
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Sixteen pumps were out of service over the weekend, making things even worse for a drainage system that already was working above its capacity, and streets began flooding.
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The briefing came as the city's unique drainage system continued to experience critical deficiencies exposed during heavy August rainstorms that led to the flooding of several hundred properties.
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As many as 200 people were killed after heavy rains overnight deluged the city's poor drainage system and created one of the most devastating floods Freetown has experienced.
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The shaft ran for four-fifths of a mile between Tijuana and San Diego and was equipped with rails, ventilation, a drainage system and even an elevator, officials said.
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Officials said the shaft was equipped with a rail system and ventilation, with high-voltage electrical cables, a drainage system and even an elevator at the opening in Tijuana.
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But when pools of water developed during a game played in a mid-July downpour, Wright said the club discovered the true cause: two blockages in the field drainage system.
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Mauricio Ehrlich, an engineer and geotechnician at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, said there had been investments in the city's drainage system in recent decades, but not enough.
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Excavating the entire stadium floor to install a drainage system and accommodate a fertile base to grow grass will require an enormous investment, as new president Mark Shapiro keeps reminding fans.
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Mayor Mitch Landrieu detailed the progress of the repairs Friday afternoon, saying he believes the drainage system could handle the predicted 5 to 10 inches of rain -- but he urged caution.
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Despite the record rainfall, CEO Jeffrey Mezger said that KB Home saw minimal damage in Houston because the company's homes were built in newer areas which have higher drainage system requirements.
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While he got away through a tunnel into the drainage system, he was captured hours later attempting to flee the city in a stolen car, ending his six months on the run.
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The problems were compounded when officials first said the drainage system was working only to later have critical problems surface in a city still scarred by Hurricane Katrina&aposs flooding in 2005.
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Critics and animal activists took the opportunity to call the ancient ritual barbaric, while other complaints were leveled at Dhaka's poor drainage system, as the capital has a longstanding problem with flooding.
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Transit workers continue to wrangle with the overwhelming task of collecting the garbage that clogs the subway's water drainage system, which pumps 13 million gallons of water a day across the system.
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The planned work includes a cemetery drainage system, shelter, bathrooms, lighting, a lockable entrance, and a redesign of the surrounding landscape to better reflect it as immortalized in van Gogh's last canvases.
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During heavy downpours in the rainy season - from November to March - Beira's ageing drainage system backs up within hours, forcing many people out of their homes, in particular in the slums, said Simango.
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The library had no proper drainage system, which meant rainwater leaked into the space, cracking floors and walls decorated with centuries-old mosaics; wooden beams had splintered; and the electrical systems needed updates.
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While a new drainage system has headed off immediate danger, the experience of places like Lenk has brought the consequences of climate change home to voters ahead of a parliamentary election on Sunday.
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As in other towns in south Louisiana, the entire city's drainage system relies on pumps to move water off the streets, so a downpour, if it is swift and hard, could spell trouble.
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If the repairs fail, the drainage system will again rely on its remaining backup turbine, which can power only 38 of the 58 pumps on the French Quarter side of the Mississippi River.
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In New Orleans, which faced flooding earlier this month after heavy rains overwhelmed its drainage system, news that the far-flung storm could bring up to 10 inches of rain raised tension levels.
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Otherwise, this is a very contemporary bridge that boasts a drainage system that flows into a "rain garden" — a state-of-the-art storm water absorption device installed on the median strip below.
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According to the World Bank, funds were provided in 2012 to help the city build flood control stations, a large water retention basin, and the restoration of a storm drainage system and canals.
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"These works allow us to prepare for the new season of heating, to test the drainage system and monitor the ageing of the pipes," the local state-run utilities company in Saint Petersburg said.
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"I am currently running the site out of my office at home, and plan on moving into a larger dedicated office space in Palo Alto once they finish installing the indoor drainage system," he wrote.
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"The flooding that happened in Baton Rouge happened in areas that are more newly developed and basically areas that were built on what you would call the natural drainage system of a community," said Hebert.
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"Later, they figured it was easier to build tunnels into the drainage system that traversed the US-Mexico border, because it saves a lot of time and saved a lot money," Vigil told Business Insider.
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Meanwhile, locals plan to avoid further damage to St Mark's Basilica by using movable flood barriers and improving its rainwater drainage system, said Pierpaolo Campostrini, managing director of CORILA, a consortium researching the Venice lagoon.
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The level of Buffalo Bayou, a major drainage system that runs through the city, is holding steady and may not recede for days, said Edmond Russo, deputy engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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As many as two-thirds of the patients in the Amoy Gardens outbreak had diarrhea, and that meant a large viral load -- the quantity of virus -- would have been discharged into the faulty drainage system.
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The water will still trickle down into the city's old drainage system, but filtering through the wetland will mete out the water from even the largest deluges more gradually, preventing storm drains from becoming overwhelmed.
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Since 2015, the city has invested $1.9 billion to build a comprehensive drainage system that would help to address flooding and infrastructure in southeast Queens, according to Julia Arredondo, a spokeswoman for the mayor's office.
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The drainage system, when at full capacity, "can drain 1 inch of rainfall in the first hour, and a half inch of rainfall every hour after that," New Orleans emergency operations chief Aaron Miller told Reuters.
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The daunting forecast comes just weeks after strong storms overwhelmed the city's unique drainage system, leading to flooding at a couple of hundred properties and exposing critical deficiencies among 100 large pumps that drain many neighborhoods.
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The new mayor, LaToya Cantrell, took office this year and inherited a rickety water and drainage system that will be expensive to fix, yet that infrastructure will have to be upgraded for the city to thrive.
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Officials say Fleetwood and his pal, Thomas English, proceeded to drive the Mule all over the grass -- causing at least $8,000 in damage to the grounds, which had just been upgraded with a new drainage system.
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The low-lying city's drainage system, shaken by an explosion Saturday in equipment that powers key rainwater pumps, can handle that rainfall with electrical capacity to spare, said Richard Rainey, spokesman for the Sewerage & Water Board.
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Because the city's pumping and drainage system has recently failed, cutting its pump capacity by half, there could be flooding there, and that's something that the Weather Prediction Center is going to be monitoring closely, Petersen says.
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Compared to the original 1960s design, the new spillway will have more rebar, stronger and thicker concrete, vinyl water stops inside of joints and a heartier drainage system — all with the concrete anchored into bedrock, Petersen said.
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One of the southern city's agencies had ignored a monitoring firm's reports of cracks and signs of sinking at the landfill, according to the council's report, which also said the site had lacked a proper drainage system.
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There are a few palm trees and a boardwalk, and a sophisticated drainage system under the sand ensures that the courts do not flood when it rains (the team even practiced as snow fell one day in February).
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In terms of plot, this scene is significant because it helps tip off the Losers' Club to the fact that everything happening in the small but terrifying town of Derry is somehow connected through the town's drainage system.
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The flood I experienced that Saturday demonstrated the extent to which the city's archaic drainage system—which largely relies on screw pumps invented by engineer Albert Baldwin Wood before the First World War—needs constant vigilance and regular maintenance.
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Almost all of the city's drainage pumps are available, the authorities said, and the drainage system is ready to self-generate more electricity to run the pumps than it had been able to do for at least a decade.
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They say the $18 billion runway will have a sea wall that stands at least 21 feet above the waterline and can withstand 100-year storms, as well as a drainage system that is designed to handle rare floods.
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As a result, Corps officials are releasing more water from the six dams it controls on the upper part of the Missouri River, hoping they can patch up the nation's arterial drainage system before winter and snowmelt next spring.
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But even lifelong residents expressed confusion and frustration at the length of time water lingered on streets after Saturday's deluge, especially when city leaders at first said the drainage system was "operating at its maximum capabilities," CNN affiliate WDSU reported.
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While the city's drainage system remains impaired, Landrieu has noted that even at its maximum design capacity, the pumps only can drain 1 inch of water in the first hour of a storm and a half-inch each subsequent hour.
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At halftime, the team is losing 4-1 and down an injured Pelé, and Michael Caine wants to win so badly that he ditches the meticulous escape plan just as the team is about to sneak through the stadium's drainage system.
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With the help of a $83 million federal grant, La Guardia Airport in New York is adding a flood wall, rainwater pumps and a new drainage system for the airfield, as well as upgrading its emergency electrical substations and generators.
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The breakdown Saturday in the drainage system, which led to the flooding of "a couple hundred" properties, highlighted the challenges posed by New Orleans' aging infrastructure -- a problem mirrored in roads, bridges, water pipes and sewer plants across the nation, Landrieu told CNN.
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With more rain in the forecast, New Orleans leaders rushed to deal with a series of malfunctions in the city's drainage system -- and to face a critical public after some local officials waited days to reveal the full extent of system failures.
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As his security team fought back a pre-dawn Navy raid on his safe house in the northwestern city of Los Mochis, Guzman scrambled out through a specially built tunnel connected to the city's drainage system, mirroring his escape from prison last year.
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Abotaleb needed an underwater seal drainage system, a piece of equipment that creates closed suction, which allows air and fluid to escape the pleural cavity but none to come back in, relieving pressure on the chest and allowing the patient to breathe.
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The court order adds to Hydro's woes after environmental agency Ibama on Wednesday fined Alunorte 20 million reais ($6.2 million) and ordered it to halt use of its waste pool and drainage system, which the agency said could halt all work at the plant.
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The drainage system for the city, much of which lies below sea level, was inundated last Saturday by storms that dumped up to 9 inches of rain in three hours in some areas, causing flash flooding, according to the mayor's press secretary, Erin Burns.
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With up to 30 inches of rain projected this weekend for the region, Morgan City Mayor Frank "Boo" Grizzaffi worried it may be more than the city's drainage system can take, so the city contacted the state and got additional pumps to help tackle the deluge.
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Made in collaboration with Parley for the Oceans, the water shoe features a combination of Parley's recycled ocean plastic yarn and Adidas' Climacool material on the upper, paired with lightweight but thick foam midsoles, chunky Stealth rubber outsoles for traction, and a built-in water drainage system.
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The M.T.A.'s drainage system has the capacity to siphon off about 1.5 inches of rain per hour, according to transit officials, and is equipped with 403 sump pump rooms alongside the tracks that funnel excess water from leaks, rain or rapid snowmelt into the sewer system.
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Every attempt will be made to get the games in, and Williams, the stadium groundsman, said the field drainage system — which was put to the test by heavy downpours earlier this month — was enhanced for the series, with extra piping placed beneath a layer of stone chips.
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According to the suit — filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts — the Exxon facility in Everett, Massachusetts, just to the northwest of Boston, has a stormwater drainage system that is easily overrun during extreme precipitation events, which are becoming more frequent due to climate change.
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"During the confrontation, Guzman Loera managed to escape through the city's drainage system, which had already been factored into the capture strategy," Gomez said late on Friday, as Guzman was whisked by helicopter to the same maximum security prison in central Mexico he broke out of in July.
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They "came out underneath the international wall there separating Tijuana and San Diego, and they went to the drainage system and there was a huge parking lot there, a public parking area where people would park their cars and then they could just literally walk across the border."
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The Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations and its fellow challengers say the Clean Water Act requires the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to obtain a discharge permit for pollutants in the project's drainage system, which flows into Mud Slough, the San Joaquin River and the Bay-Delta Estuary.
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The empty dwelling, without running water or a drainage system, is arranged around a rickety camper that is half submerged in a dirty pit and surrounded by 7-foot (2-meter) berms of used tires, sections of adobe wall topped with broken glass, a junked refrigerator and other odd supplies.
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The lot would replace a field that is no longer usable for athletics and is often muddy and a breeding ground for mosquitoes, said Dr. Prendergast, adding that a 30-foot-wide undisturbed natural border would remain around the lot, along with 60 new trees and a new drainage system.
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"When I was in San Diego, there were some people from Sinaloa — we know it was the Sinaloa cartel — that rented a house and what they did is they built a tunnel in the bedroom, they took out tiles, built a tunnel, probably about 15 feet down, and then started excavate, and they hit a drainage system," Vigil said.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Brazilian environmental agency Ibama fined Norsk Hydro's unit in the northern state of Para, the world's largest alumina refining plant, 20 million reais ($6.2 million) and ordered it to halt using its waste pool and drainage system, potentially halting all work at the plant, the regulator said in statement on Wednesday.
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The National Park Service has just finished a $40 million renovation of the Mall that included excavating soil 4 to 5 feet deep, installing a new 250,000-gallon drainage system, replacing the soil with high-tech trample-resistant dirt fortified with sand, and then covering that soil with a special turf blend sourced from a farm in New Jersey.
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Rather than promote a gradual retreat from the waterfront, the de Blasio administration has focused on making the city's coastlines, and its structures, more resilient to storms, pointing to successes like Arverne by the Sea, a 117-acre development in Rockaway, Queens, that withstood Sandy with a heavy-duty drainage system, natural buffers and elevated land.
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But according to the Chicago Tribune, Spaceship Earth features a hidden drainage system that lets rainwater flow through and into well-placed gutters, which then channel it through Spaceship Earth's support legs beneath Future World, where it flows out and replenishes the water supply in World Showcase Lagoon, located in the back half of the park.
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The Supreme Court votes to let the federal government vet immigrants with a wealth test in order to prevent poor visa-seekers from becoming citizens&aposThe American Dream isn&apost a private club with a cover charge&apos: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez trashes Trump&aposs wealth test for immigrantsThe Trump administration unveils new rule restricting visas for pregnant travelers to halt &aposbirth tourism&aposBorder authorities say they discovered the longest-ever smuggling tunnel at the US-Mexico border, complete with an elevator, ventilation, and a drainage system
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President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE ran his campaign on promises of complete overhaul, including the promise to "drain the swamp" that is Washington, D.C. Though he spoke metaphorically, this first-time District resident will soon discover that parts of Washington's present-day drainage system date from at least the Civil War.
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