re: Morganza Spillway may or may not open for a 3rd time -- lack of clear info from ACoE

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It could be we have 10 or 12 years of wet weather every 40 or 50 years. It could be the river bottom is rising.

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I think another cause of the more frequent high waters is the massive amounts of land within the watershed that has been developed in the past few decades. Even a modest increase of one or two percent to the impervious coverage can have large impacts downstream.

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How's the forebay looking?

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I haven't seen it, but I'm sure it's flooded if they're going to open the Bonnet Carre. The Carrollton gage is around 15', I think, so I'd venture to guess the forebay is completely inundated.

It’s not about cost I’d imagine. Try to get the thousands of Boudreaux and Clotille willingly out of their family property because the federal government is going to deliberately flood their homes. It would be impossible. We all know this would literally be NIMBY x1,000,000

Okay, I get what you're saying. We'll never "win" with just the diversion projects currently running and as the way they're run (based on salinity levels).

Freshwater diversions were fine to start, but it seems to me that we need diversions that are sediment laden. Sport and commercial fishermen won't like it, and oystermen will hate it, but the marsh is going to be lost without some river sediment building and the fresh water that comes along with it.

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I haven't seen it, but I'm sure it's flooded if they're going to open the Bonnet Carre. The Carrollton gage is around 15', I think, so I'd venture to guess the forebay is completely inundated.

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The real forebay is in Morganza, baw

Off topic. Apologies.

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Anaximander

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That's a tough drum grove because the way Bonham recorded it with his kit in the tile lobby of the recording studio using multiple mikes. Zepparella's drummer does a pretty good job on it. That lagging echo backbeat on the original is tough to reproduce live without some technology assisting.

On topic.
Do we know if people are walking the levees looking for boils and to see if they are percolating clean water or dirty?

If this were happening it might give some evidence of possible anxiety on the levee breaking front.

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The "real" forebay

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What's a 'forebay?'

I'd love to take a visit to the ORCS. I've seen pictures but I don't really understand much about water dynamics and the amount of force it's holding back. I mean, I get the basic concepts but I know there is a hell of a lot more to it than I understand.

47.9 feet is the low point.

When the river got to 45.01 in 2011 it was insane how close to the top it appeared.

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Maybe a mass exodus of NOLA refugees back from BR to NOLA?

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One could only dream of sending them back.