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Pumps keeping up with New Orleans flooding: official

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Waves from Hurricane Gustav caused some flooding over the tops of levees in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, hard-hit during Hurricane Katrina three years ago, but city pumps were clearing the floodwaters, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said on Monday. <p><a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/Reuters/domesticNews?a=KpWDTl"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/Reuters/domesticNews?i=KpWDTl" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/Reuters/domesticNews?a=dWkvhL"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/Reuters/domesticNews?i=dWkvhL" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/Reuters/domesticNews?a=wQnjCl"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/Reuters/domesticNews?i=wQnjCl" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/Reuters/domesticNews?a=yEurll"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/Reuters/domesticNews?i=yEurll" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/domesticNews/~4/380731181" height="1" width="1"/>