“We have to keep our waterways clean. We happen to have all these pumping stations because of all our lakes.”
Bonnie Mathis
“If you add up all the pumping capacity of all those stations, we can pump about 2½ billion gallons of water a day. That's about the amount it would take to fill White Rock Lake.”
Ron Shindoll
“To begin with, we emphasize that pumping water from the lake will actually help Swan Lake and will not hurt it at all. We'll be pumping from the bottom of the lake, and that will stimulate the flow more so than it is now.”
Wendell T. Nealon
“Pump 4 with the red truck, you're ready to go, Ma'am, please come inside and pay when you're done pumping.”
Tim Sutton
“The parish president made the decision that he wouldn't risk the lives of the pump station operators, and we evacuated those people to the shelter closest to us, ... You want to know who's responsible for the flooding? Katrina's responsible.”
William Maestri
“It's still considered experimental to do what happened with Barney Clark -- which is to put the person on the pump for the rest of their life, never intending to transplant them.”
Patrick McCarthy
“We've ordered small portable pumps to put out there temporarily to move the standing water to No Name Lake. We've been pumping since early June and our lakes are fine. We have capacity to handle a couple inches of rain.”
City Manager Maryann Courson
