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re: Miss. River Water Level Questions
Posted on 5/12/20 at 7:53 am to GREENHEAD22
Posted on 5/12/20 at 7:53 am to GREENHEAD22
I don’t doubt it. The person we were talking to said that the river would over top the levee before the triggers to open the spillway was reached because the river was so shallow now. They really need to do something. I’ve been trying to build a house on river road and it’s been one thing after another with the Corp of Engineers. I finally got a waiver to start when the river reaches 15’ in NOLA. But that’s only to do the slab as I can only dig 1’ into virgin soil till it hits the 11’ mark.
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Posted on 5/12/20 at 8:08 am to lsujunky
2020, the year of Covid, Government boot to the throat, negative oil and when the MS river said frick yalls levees.
Seriously though it look like we made it through this spring without much flooding compared to the previous couple.
Seriously though it look like we made it through this spring without much flooding compared to the previous couple.
Posted on 5/12/20 at 8:13 am to lsujunky
There are flow triggers and elevations triggers to open the spillways. Elevation triggers I don't believe are published. They cant let it over top major levees downstream simply because the flow trigger wasn't met. Your friend is correct, siltation is the issue. Higher elevations are being seen with lower flows. I don't know if it was Obama specifically, but dredging funding was cut. Mainly passed New Orleans though which is not causing the problems upstream. South pass for one is no longer dredged.
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