Photos: Engineering New Orleans, post-Katrina

Behind the giant gate that was installed at the mouth of New Orleans' 17th Street Canal in 2006, there are 11 large-volume water pumps that are designed to push flood waters on the inside of the gate back out.

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Caption by Daniel Terdiman