Talk:A. Baldwin Wood

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[edit] Katrina

I'm debating the appropriateness of adding mention of Hurricane Katrina here. It seems Wood's draining laid the groundwork for Katrina's dvistation. —BenFrantzDale 01:34, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

A bit of an overstatement, I think. Wood's pumps certainly laid the foundation of the expansion of the city into what had been swampy lowlands, but his system was designed for the New Orleans of his era-- I think part of the problem was that the S&WB stuck too much to Wood's original system adding little more than more pumping capacity as the city expanded far beyond the area the system was designed for, instead of creating similar new systems for the more newly settled area like near the lakefront and in the East. -- Infrogmation