re: Miss River Flood Thread 2016, river back on the rise again.......

River Bank Repair at Duncan Point not yet begun on latest damaged area

Several cuts in the river bank were created this summer after high water in the Mississippi River receded quickly.

A Pontchartrain Levee District inspection after the water receded revealed two deep cuts in the river bank on the river side of the levee, said Rene Poche, a Corps spokesman.

The sandy material is about 100 feet riverward from the base of the levee, with one cut about 12 feet deep and the other about 20 feet deep, Poche said. The repair work will be done by Corps workers at a cost of about $200,000.

The levee remains stable and undamaged, and there were no problems caused by the cuts during the latest high water, Poche said. The repairs will help ensure that the scour won’t continue the next time the Mississippi River rises.

45 million gallons of water flowed through latest Duncan Point cracks

High water levels in the Mississippi River during the summer and the subsequent rapid drawdown of the river in August led to two large cuts in the east bank of the levee near Duncan Point in south Baton Rouge, with 45 million gallons of water slipping through those cracks into an uninhabited area in a six-day span.

Now the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans is proposing a plan to fix levee and is asking for public comments on the plan.