re: Escalating Floods Putting Mississippi River’s Old River Control Structure at Risk

I didn’t read all of that. I live in mid city br, am I fitna die? Do I have time to pay my respek to Lawrence Bottoms tomorrow?

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Highaland road would be new levee. Then would flow to St. Gaberiel and back fill spanish lake and Bayou Manchac. If that happens and Baton Rouge were to get a significant rain water would really have no where to go and the great flood all over again with no where to drain!!!!!! MASSIVE State of Emergency


All you need are 1 or 2 run away barges on the river to come crashing through the trees loaded with gravel and hit the levee and this possibility becomes a reality very very quickly

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Or maybe a very, very wet fall, winter, & spring that saturates the ground and levee, then add on top of that the longest high-water flood in the river's history, resulting in enormous stress on the levees.

Just spit balling here.

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Or maybe a very, very wet fall, winter, & spring that saturates the ground and levee, then add on top of that the longest high-water flood in the river's history, resulting on enormous stress on the levees.

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This actually scares me more than the other scenarios. I’m surprised we haven’t seen more sloughing with this rapid rise.

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Doesnt matter, have the high ground

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Settle down, Obi Wan.

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Why doesn't army corps of engineers get out there today and dredge the silt?

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there is only so much dredging equipment in the world and almost all of it is being used at any given time. The corps can barely keep the mouth of the river open.

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Some combination of silt raising the river bottom at the bend and a lot of rain in the lower miss valley and you see the atchafalaya doubling or more and Mississippi flow at new Orleans in half or less.

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So the Mississippi will do what it actually wants to do instead of what we want it to do?

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So the Mississippi will do what it actually wants to do instead of what we want it to do?

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You are attributing egoic personhood to the topography. You've been hoodwinked. It's done a lot in documentaries. As if the river has a mind of its own. Nope. "Old man river" is a fable.

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there is only so much dredging equipment in the world and almost all of it is being used at any given time. The corps can barely keep the mouth of the river open.

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Is the USACE even authorized to dredge around ORCS?

The USACE can't unzip and take a piss without congressional authorization.

I'm not opposed to this idea, and I think the costs of new dredges and operational cost - while high - would still be significantly less than a collapse of ORCS and river rerouting.

But this is the kind of thing we need to decide today so we can actually do it in 5-10 years.

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This stuff is fascinating

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Scary and fascinating

I wish there were a way to filter the sediment before this point. Or at least some of it. I know this is a silly idea, but like a giant mesh filter screen that catches the sediment, and somehow could be scraped clean daily and the sediment moved somewhere else.

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that happens and Baton Rouge were to get a significant rain water would really have no where to go

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Itd go through the break to the river like it was naturally intended to. With no levee, the 2016 flood would have been a non-event