If you add up all the pumping capacity of all those stations, we can pump about 2½ billion gallons of water a day. That's about the amount it would take to fill White Rock Lake.

If we get it over a three- or four-hour period, then we are in pretty good shape. The inlets have time to take it, and it drains off well.

Even to residents of the area, it's really unknown.

There was $8 billion in new capital expenditures in 2004, so there is still plenty of capacity.

A pump style dredge system, and they'll be sucking the sand off of near shore sand beds and pumping it directly onto the beach.

It's not really about the stations; it's about people's lifestyles. All the pretty pictures in the world don't add up to anything, because the core thing that people need to know is the cost and the benefits.