Floodwater pumped from New York's Ground Zero

November 5, 2012

(Reuters) - The memorial and underground museum at the site of the September 11 attacks were being pumped free of floodwater on Saturday, five days after the huge storm Sandy caused the Hudson River to pour into the area known as Ground Zero, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said.

The construction site sits near the waterfront in lower Manhattan where Sandy produced a record storm surge of nearly 14 feet when it slammed ashore last Monday.

"At the cresting of the tide on Monday night, the Hudson River was basically pouring into the World Trade Center site. ... The World Trade Center site had 28 feet of water in the bottom," Cuomo said.

Four-inch-wide (10-cm-wide) hoses siphoned water from underground and into the street on Saturday, sucking out what one worker estimated to be 200 million gallons (757,000 cubic meters) of water.

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