re: Mississippi River Flooding - Links & Pictures in 1st Post

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I drove through there yesterday and saw the frenzied construction first hand. Pretty desperate, but they have to try something. The current of the river looked incredible from the bridge.

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They sunk a barge there about a month or so ago near the bridge. Word I got was that they were going to leave it there until the water went down. I wonder if it will still be there then?

Some more pics probably only interesting to folks familiar with Natchez.


Roth Hill

The Port was a great place to put in Sunday.

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That third pic...is that the road to Anna's Bottom

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nah. if that was Anna's, we'd be in a world of shite.
From what I heard, Anna's farms are flooded but not the road.

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A bunch of guys that went to med school.

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misslou, how bout the frickin geniuses who put million $ equipment on the FIRST frickING FLOOR?

not saving so much on malpractice insurance now are they?

my roomate farms Annas Bottom we put the boat in down there saturday and his field is completely under except for maybe 1/2 an acre. They think that everything will be under at the crest, even the cotton gin and the camp at second union will have at least 4 feet of water in them.

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nah. if that was Anna's, we'd be in a world of shite.

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No doubt. Gave me a start. Guess I'm gonna' have to ride over there to see this myself. Unreal.

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Let me sum it up. The water is damned high and is probably going to flood those brand new buildings there. The buildings are worth lots of money, so they are putting big boxes of sand to make walls around them. It is a last ditch effort.

Let me summarize the summary: It is very bad in Vidalia.

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That convention center cost them something like 70 million dollars

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Wasn't that law written because they almost lost the river there?
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No. That was the law that originally authorized the Old River project. It was a political compromise that had nothing to do with capacity.

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I think I read that the capacity (max discharge volume) of ORCS is something like 620,000 cfs. If the Corps operated the structure at 30% of capacity, the flow would be a constant 206.66 cfs year round.

Isn't the 70/30 split is in reference to the discharge of the Mississippi River, at a gage near the structure? (Red River Landing, perhaps?). For example, if the river is running at 500 cfs, 150 cfs is diverted through ORCS (500 x .30). If the river is running at 1000 cfs, 300 cfs is diverted through ORCS (1000 x .30).

Have I got this wrong?

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my roomate farms Annas Bottom

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Yea. we were down there in 2008. 4 wheeling in the water and shite.

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I think I read that the capacity (max discharge volume) of ORCS is something like 620,000 cfs



You sure you aren't confusing that with the Morganza?

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620 for OCRS
600 for Morganza

Those are maximum flow rates.

By statute, they could only flow the full 620 out of OCRS if the flow before that point was 2066 or so, as that would be a seventy/thirty split. I am sure they would bump it up to beyond thirty percent if they felt they had to do so.