To: News Media
From: Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans
Contact: Robert Jackson, 269-7978  or
              Brenda Thornton, 269-7819

Sewerage and Water Board's Response to President Broussard's Request Advisory

It is the hope of the Sewerage and Water Board that President Broussard and the members of the Jefferson Parish Council will agree with us that the major responsibility and focus of the Corps should be the rebuilding of levees, operating the gated structures and temporary pumps they have installed and that the operation of Drainage Pump Station Six be left to the professionals who have operated it efficiently, effectively and professionally since the early 1900's, and have served both Orleans and Jefferson Parishes extremely well.

Tommie A. Vassel
President Pro-Tem
Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans

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