Draining New Orleans will take 80 days - Army

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Reuters) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expects to take up to 80 days to remove Hurricane Katrina's flood waters from New Orleans, a senior official said on Friday.
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