Efforts precipitated intense rainfall last week was unprecedented in the 43-year history of the city-owned facility, stadium manager Mike McSweeney said.
"Derna came through," he said Thursday. "His condition was much better than we expected."
Otherwise, the Navy would have an unfair advantage over San Diego State University.
Shortly before 8 am, Poinsettia Bowl executive director Bruce Binkowski called it an amazing achievement, as he watched a team of workers paint sponsorship logo at midfield.
"All the water," he said. "It's a miracle."
The first pump inside the stadium, capable of discharging 2,200 gallons a minute, began buzzing about 4:30 pm Tuesday, McSweeney said. As a police officer arrived first on the scene, it would require a backup before too long.
Water accumulates on the field and fields from rain and above the saturated groundwater below. Water stood three feet in the ground and the stadium looked like a swimming pool with front-row seat at her side.
By 11 am Wednesday, photos, flooded fields went viral on the Internet and stadium officials huddle together as the water volume has increased along with the online page views. They hatched a plan that involved 40 to 50 people get the stadium ready for the scheduled 5:06 pm start Poinsettia Bowl on Thursday.
McSweeney said the "Herculean efforts" of its operations director, Steve Whiteman.
About 2:30 or 3 pm Wednesday, additional pumps began sucking the water and send it through 500 feet of pipes provided by the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department in the parking lot of Qualcomm, which was two thirds covered by water. Many slowly drained into a river.
Around 8:00 pm, Godwin Pumps of America, companies in the world Loma, a large pump capable of discharging 7,400 gallons per minute. It chugged along in the parking lot near the trolley station, directing water from the stadium site straight into a river.
It was not until about 9 pm Wednesday that the swollen San Diego River has receded to a low enough level that "water is really accelerated" out of the property, McSweeney said.
By 1 am, the city and stadium crews began closing several pumps on the east side of the stadium, leaving a large pump at the south end parking lot.
By 4:15 am, three massive vinyl tarp that was covering the playing field, because after the Chargers game last Thursday have been removed. Each TARP can cushion two-thirds of 65,000 square feet of the field. Removal took about 20 workers stadium.
At 6:30 am, the picture of the field began. Two crews began spraying the end zone with shades of meaning, to match colors on each team. Navy was done first, then SDSU's.
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