re: Mississippi River Flooding - Links & Pictures in 1st Post

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They are going to open the BC, maybe as early as the end of this week. (Someone posted earlier today that they were already pulling the pins.)

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CORPS told us today that the BC Spillway will be open on Monday.

The BC Spillway is opened when the flow reaches 1.3 million cfs at Red River Landing. Currently we are just at 1 million in Baton Rouge. So BC will be open on Monday.

Not sure where the info for removing the pins came from but I believe that intell is wrong.

Morganza is another beast.

Morgan City is predicted to peak at 9.5 without the Morganza Spillway open. I would guess it would be a foot or 2 higher if Morganza was opened.

So they would be taking the stess off the levees in BR and NOLA and putting it on the Atchafalaya River levees.

Hijack...ScottieP Do you work in the Sherwood Forrest office? If so you work with my neighbor...I know CSB

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So they would be taking the stess off the levees in BR and NOLA and putting it on the Atchafalaya River levees.

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It really is pick your poison. It isn't good either way.

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I think the potential problems with Morganza are destroying farms and the few structures in the spillway, the water level at Morgan City, and closing it since it's really old and isn't ever opened. But they'd figure that out once the river goes down.

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The Morganza is about 25 years younger than the Bonnet Carre and they opened it in 1973. These structures don't just sit there until a flood comes, there are people who maintain them in the interim periods.

For tbose with facebook, you can like the Birds Point New Madrid flood center on there and it gives updates all the time on what is going on with the levee breach in missouri as well as other river info. It is a corps of engineers site i believe

Got ya.... MC

Note: When asked about the Bonnet Carre and Morganza spillways down river MG Walsh stated that, while no decisions have been made at this point, the likelihood of eventually opening the Bonnet Carre Spillway is 'High" and the likelihood of opening the Morganza Spillway is "Medium to High." He also noted that no decisions regarding those spillways will likely be made until next week at the earliest.


From Major General Walsh ACOE

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I don't see why the BC isn't opened more often.

It just pisses off fishermen, right?

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The river generally isn't high enough to open it. Generally when it is (such as now), there is a big load of nitrogen being carried by the river from all the intensive agriculture throughout the midwest and Delta. The large nitrogen load creates large algal blooms in Lake Pontchartrain. These algal blooms cause hypoxia in the lake, just as they do in the Gulf.