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Flood control suggestions
Posted on 5/10/11 at 3:49 pm
Posted on 5/10/11 at 3:49 pm
Why isn't there any other relief to the Miss. river flooding other than spillways, blowing up levees etc. Why don't they dig irrigation piplines to farming areas towards the west/east. Texas sure could use some of this over flow. Hell, Toledo Bend Dam is damn near down 10 ft. It could take on a hell of a lot of water to bring it to pool.
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Posted on 5/10/11 at 3:51 pm to VernonPLSUfan
Water your lawn, stop flushing toilets.
Posted on 5/10/11 at 3:52 pm to VernonPLSUfan
were you the one commenting this idea on some news site?
Posted on 5/10/11 at 3:55 pm to Croacka
Nope, but if you look at the grand scheme of things, the money the gov't will spend to help out disaster victims, I would think these type of diversions would pay for themsevles in the long run. Also help out drought situations in the farmland. Just sayin.
Posted on 5/10/11 at 3:57 pm to VernonPLSUfan
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Nope, but if you look at the grand scheme of things, the money the gov't will spend to help out disaster victims, I would think these type of diversions would pay for themsevles in the long run. Also help out drought situations in the farmland. Just sayin.
It would be needed only once every 50 years or so, otherwise it's useless. This is what the Morganza spillway was built for, and look how much it's been used.
Posted on 5/10/11 at 3:57 pm to VernonPLSUfan
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Why isn't there any other relief to the Miss. river flooding other than spillways, blowing up levees etc. Why don't they dig irrigation piplines to farming areas towards the west/east. Texas sure could use some of this over flow. Hell, Toledo Bend Dam is damn near down 10 ft. It could take on a hell of a lot of water to bring it to pool.
you want some kind of aqueduct system? This would have to cross hundreds of rivers, anything but an elevated aqueduct would be ineffective of getting all that water to Texas or east to Lake Lanier
Posted on 5/10/11 at 3:59 pm to Lloyd Christmas
we'll just build a 500 mile diversion canal
should be pretty cheap
should be pretty cheap
Posted on 5/10/11 at 4:03 pm to Croacka
I don't know about 500 miles. Seems you could divert the water even if there's not a flooding situation, to help out the farmers and such.
Posted on 5/10/11 at 4:04 pm to Croacka
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should be pretty cheap
Yeah it should. What is it like $2 millon per mile to build a levee, so digging a canal has to be the cheaper way.
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divert the water even if there's not a flooding situation, to help out the farmers and such
Why would you want to divert water if its not flooding. There would be no reason, or do you just want to lower the river. And this diversion, would it not flood if the river got crested again?
This post was edited on 5/10/11 at 4:07 pm
Posted on 5/10/11 at 4:18 pm to lob1284
smarter people than you thought about this and came up with spillways. If there was a better cheaper alternative thats what we would be doing now.
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