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Posted on 5/10/11 at 2:14 pm to lsuhunt555
Posted on 5/10/11 at 2:14 pm to Croacka
awesome, thanks! 
Posted on 5/10/11 at 2:18 pm to lsuhunt555
quote:Just checked google earth.
you do realize that the back bay just about ALWAYS has water in it...right?
1998 - dry
2005 - dry
2006 - dry
2007 - dry
2009 - wet
Posted on 5/10/11 at 2:23 pm to AlxTgr
quote:
1998 - dry
2005 - dry
2006 - dry
2007 - dry
2009 - wet
It varies with the time of the year. In the spring time when the water comes up, it has water in it. Not sure what time of the year the pictures are from.
ETA: Maybe I shouldn't have said always, maybe I should have said in the spring.
This post was edited on 5/10/11 at 2:28 pm
Posted on 5/10/11 at 2:32 pm to meauxjeaux2
you guys just wait until that data center in north carolina is up and running for apple. it will give streetview a run for its money!
Posted on 5/10/11 at 2:47 pm to lsuhunt555
I don't understand, if it normally doesn't have water in it, then what are people talking about the 30% going through the spillway?
Posted on 5/10/11 at 2:53 pm to southernelite
quote:
then what are people talking about the 30% going through the spillway?
that refers to the ORCS
Posted on 5/10/11 at 2:54 pm to southernelite
Everything on the west side of the structure doesn't normally have water in it. The fore bay or back bay which is the part on the east side of the structure, usually has water in it this time of year.
Posted on 5/10/11 at 2:56 pm to lsuhunt555
quote:
Everything on the west side of the structure doesn't normally have water in it.
That would be the farmland that is shown right to the right in this link?
Posted on 5/10/11 at 2:58 pm to lsuhunt555
when the lower "potato levee" tops, it inundates the forebay
once that drains, they redo the lower levee
it takes an above average event to overtop the potato levee, its not nearly every year
you are persistent though
once that drains, they redo the lower levee
it takes an above average event to overtop the potato levee, its not nearly every year
you are persistent though
Posted on 5/10/11 at 3:03 pm to Croacka
quote:
you are persistent though
Since 02, I have driven past that area and over that structure every year various times of the year. In the last 6-7 years, I have not seen it without water in it.
I am not saying that the water in it the fore bay is from the river every year or that the river overflows into to it every year. What I am saying is that there is water in it. It may be stagnant water that doesn't drain, but there is water in it.
Posted on 5/10/11 at 3:09 pm to lsuhunt555
quote:
Since 02, I have driven past that area and over that structure every year various times of the year. In the last 6-7 years, I have not seen it without water in it.
I am not saying that the water in it the fore bay is from the river every year or that the river overflows into to it every year. What I am saying is that there is water in it. It may be stagnant water that doesn't drain, but there is water in it.
and like i said earlier, there are little ponds within the forebay that are always there, as i've passed over it regularly for 20 years
however, the way it looks now (one large lake) is a rare occurence, except for the fact that it took them two years to finally drain it the last time it flooded in 2008
Posted on 5/10/11 at 3:35 pm to Croacka
quote:
Croacka
Dropping that Avoyelles/Pointe Coupee Parish knowledge in here!
Posted on 5/10/11 at 3:38 pm to F machine
lsuhunt's from bunkie, so we're kinda cancelling out I guess
Posted on 5/10/11 at 3:40 pm to Croacka
quote:
lsuhunt's from bunkie, so we're kinda cancelling out I guess
Well, you have an ingrained sense of water since you are from the port. That's something that always give you an advantage in these situations.
Posted on 5/10/11 at 3:42 pm to Croacka
As someone who has no knowledge of such things, just looking at the size of that spillway in comparison to all the water headed it's way, makes a very sobering picture.
Posted on 5/10/11 at 3:44 pm to TigerNAtux
forebay is not the spillway though
those gates open into the spillway which is southwest of the gates and is much larger
those gates open into the spillway which is southwest of the gates and is much larger
Posted on 5/10/11 at 3:49 pm to Croacka
I warned you I had no knowledge.
Posted on 5/10/11 at 4:00 pm to Croacka
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except for the fact that it took them two years to finally drain it the last time it flooded in 2008
That is certainly the case. The damn thing looked like it had 10 feet of water in it until about last spring. 08 filled that sucker up that's for sure.
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