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John McNamara, assistant chief engineer, Milton Dupuy, president, and Armand Willoz, chief engineer, inspect equipment. "When I was a kid I used to slide down the levees on big sheets of cardboard," says Milton Dupuy, 38, president of the Orleans Parish Levee Board. "All I knew about levees then was that they made great chute-the-chutes."
