re: Answer me this about the Morganza structure???

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Point is none of these people would be flooding without the opening of the Morganza structure.

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Baton Rouge and New Orleans would be flooding instead

Not reading through thread so sorry if this was already posted but when people buy in that area they sign a letter to sign EVERY year saying they understand they may be flooded should a need arise.

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Might be true, but there are some very nice subdivisions with $500K+ houses in the path too

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those homes are probably $500k in Metairie and Baton Rouge, but in Stephensville, thats probably a $300k subdivision

Morgan City sits on the banks of the Atchafalaya River. Morgan City was originally called Tiger Island by surveyors appointed by U.S. Secretary of War John Calhoun because of a particular type of wild cat seen in the area. It was later called Brashear City after Walter Brashear, a prominent Kentucky physician who purchased large tracts of land and acquired numerous sugar mills.[1] It was incorporated in 1860 as Brashear City and in 1876, the community's name was changed to Morgan City in tribute to Charles Morgan, rail and steamship magnate who first dredged the Atchafalaya Bay Ship Channel to accommodate ocean-going vessels.[2][3] Star Fort ,Also known as Fort Brashear. This site was the larger of two works erected to defend Morgan City, then Brashear City and a Federal military depot. On the night of June 22, 1863, 325 Confederates of Gen. A.A. Mouton's command landed their skiffs and flats in rear of the town. Attacking the next day, they captured the garrison of 700 Federals and immense military stores, while suffering losses of only 3 killed, 18 wounded.


So yeah Id say Morgan City was there before the Morganza Spillway!

I do not think anyone here is says frick those people. The Morganza spillway is there for a purpose and everyone knows that.

Most of the land being flooded is farm land. Most of the structures being affected are primative camps where people know the chances or industries built inside the floodwalls that provide access to the rivers. There are really no houses in the spillway itself.

Some others areas will be affected by mimimal backwater flooding.

As stated before most of these area would flood more often is not for the Morganza structure.

From the official Morgan City website.

The City of Morgan City is located in the eastern portion of St. Mary Parish approximately 20 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. The area consists mainly of low coastal marshes with ridges of higher alluvial land along the rivers and bayous. Morgan City is situated along the east bank of the Atchafalaya River at the intersection of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. Lake Palourde lies to the north and east of the city. The Atchafalaya River, the Gulf Intracostal Waterway and other watercourses in the area have made Morgan City attractive to the fishing, construction, transportation and petroleum industries.

Although ponding of runoff produced by rainstorms and hurricanes causes significant flooding in Morgan City, the most severe flooding in the major part of the City has been caused from the Atchafalaya River, a tributary of the Mississippi River. Major floods of the Mississippi River and its tributaries occurred in 1927, 1937, 1945, 1950, 1973, 1974, and 1975. The flood of 1927 was the most disastrous in the recent recorded geological history of the lower Mississippi River Valley. A significant portion of land adjacent to the Atchafalaya River was inundated by the floodwaters of 1927. Flooding extended continuously from the Teche Ridge (west of Morgan City) to Lafourche Ridge (east of Morgan City). The flood of 1927 had an estimated recurrence interval of 50 years. The flood of 1973, which had an estimated recurrence interval of 40 years, was the largest flood on the Mississippi River since 1927. The maximum stage of the Atchafalaya River at Morgan City during the 1973 flood was 10.5 feet, or 2.5 feet below the top of the floodwall. During the 1973 flood, heavy losses were experienced by industries located on the Atchafalaya River side of the levee in Morgan City.

So as you can see, the Morgan City area flooded every 10 years before the Morganza spillway was constructed, and this will be only the second time in the last 57 years since the spillway was built it has been flooded due to the opening of the spillway itself.

No one say Frick those people. No one says who cares they get a letter in the mail every year. What people are saying is that this is the only way for it to happen. I can't fathom how people wantto flood BR and Nola because they don't like city folk and the small towns should be protected. What people don't realize is if the spillway is not opened we will likely have multiple levee breaches that would cause longterm problems for the area much less the economy.

As unfortunate as it may be, this is how it is. You cant flood the BR nola corridor to save a few towns of 6k people, it doesn't work that way.

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Kajungee

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Amen. That is it exactly.

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That place is surrounded by water. You'd think they would have built elevated houses?

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Many do in the basin. In some other places like Old River, there are houses that are as high as the levee. There is one old oilfield guy who built his camp out there up on drive pipe (if you are oilfield trash enough to know what that is), and he will probably make it.

But there are some places where you just cannot get high enough to stay above the water when they open the Morganza. And people living there know that.

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I do not think anyone here is says frick those people

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I don't know, there were some real douche bags on here the other day.