"The city's sewer system, the stormwater management system that goes through the subway stations, doesn't have the capacity to deal with rainfall in excess of a 1.5 to 1.34 inches," Janno Lieber, MTA chair and CEO, said during a TV interview on Tuesday.
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain.