New Orleans officials say the city’s pumps and levees are holding up as Hurricane Isaac continues to make its way north, according to the AP:
Army Corps of Engineers spokeswoman Rachel Rodi says the corps expects to be on “high alert” for the next 12 to 24 hours, but they’re confident it’s going well so far.
Rodi says a pumping station at the 17th Street canal in New Orleans – which was built at the site of a levee that breached during Hurricane Katrina – briefly went down early Wednesday, but operators were able to manually get it working again.
Isaac was still maintaining Category 1 hurricane strength with sustained winds of 75 miles per hour, according to the National Hurricane Center.
