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

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I find it curious that New Orleans gets to 17 (flood stage) on 1/9 and stays there for weeks. Is that because it will be maintained at 17 by spillway openings, or is that where the model tops out? The levees are supposed to be 20'.

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This is the 2nd or 3rd (open to debate) - 500 year flood in the last 23 years. Most of the river surveys are 40-60 years old. The farmers in the Fore Bay were in the process of trying to get the corp to do new surveys when this started. The Mississippi valley has changed a lot in the last 60 years. It is time for new surveys.

If my memory is correct some of the surveys are 80 years old.