Huge Story Could Be in Making---Miss River Water Levels---Above Monumental 1973--At this stage
Posted by
jack ruby on 3/6/2010, 8:29 am
Its early, but with all the snow in the northern half of the country this winter, water levels are running extremely high in the Miss. and Atchafalaya River Basins in La. This is a story which has yet to hit the national news media, but I would look for it in coming weeks. Unbelievable to me that water levels at this point are higher than 1973!! We know now that the 1973 flood came very close to undermining the Morganza Control Structure in La. That structure keeps the water from the lower Miss from flowing into the Atchafalya River. Without that structure most of the Miss River water would have changed course by now (by passing Baton Rouge and New Orleans) and heading down toward Morgan City. The 1973 and 1927 floods are two grand markers in Miss River flood history. The 1927 flood was memorialized in the Randy Newman song "Louisiana, They're trying to wash us away". That flood caused the intentional blowing of levees south of New Orleans resulting in flooding of smaller communities there (thus relieving pressure on levees in New Orleans and saving the city. After the Great Flood of 1927, the Army Corps of Engineers came on the scene with a national levee building plan to channel the Miss River water. This plan is far from perfect and as I said previously the Morganza Control Structure (Army Corps of Engineers) almost failed in 1973. A very short plain article from South La. here.
http://www.banner-tribune.com/News/flooding.htm |
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