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Posted on 5/22/19 at 9:18 pm to AutoYes_Clown
Posted on 5/22/19 at 9:18 pm to AutoYes_Clown
River changes course for good
Morgan city is gone
Mississippi River we currently know (downstream of ORCS) will begin to silt in
Navigation and shipping is vastly affected.
Salt water wedge pushes up the Mississippi River to nola possibly cutting freshwater supply all up and down the river
Sooooo not good
Not to mention all of the infrastructure such as bridges in the Atchafalaya floodplain that are not designed for the full flow of the River that may fail. So 90 could conceivably be shut down.
Morgan city is gone
Mississippi River we currently know (downstream of ORCS) will begin to silt in
Navigation and shipping is vastly affected.
Salt water wedge pushes up the Mississippi River to nola possibly cutting freshwater supply all up and down the river
Sooooo not good
Not to mention all of the infrastructure such as bridges in the Atchafalaya floodplain that are not designed for the full flow of the River that may fail. So 90 could conceivably be shut down.
This post was edited on 5/22/19 at 9:21 pm
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Posted on 5/22/19 at 9:22 pm to celltech1981
It's called a Spillway for a reason. Everyone knew this when they built camps and other structures in it.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 9:24 pm to jimjackandjose
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Need some dredging or diversions. Quick
I think they need to study those diversions for 100-400 more years before we can break ground on them.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 9:28 pm to jimjackandjose
Diversions downstream of NOLA won’t help in this situation. Unless you mean diversions at or upstream of ORCS
Posted on 5/22/19 at 9:33 pm to jimbeam
The crazy thing is, 2011 was the highest the river has been in my lifetime. At the time I was working on a dock on the river. The very next year, the river was so low, barge tows above Baton Rouge were having to break down in order to navigate.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 9:55 pm to celltech1981
It will open. The levees have been holding flood waters for too. Levees are saturated and under tremendous stress. This is the longest that the Mississippi has been above flood stage in history
Posted on 5/22/19 at 10:05 pm to bakersman
And the spillway itself is already in flood stage unlike the last time they opened it and the spillway was bone dry. This one's gonna hurt.
This post was edited on 5/22/19 at 10:06 pm
Posted on 5/22/19 at 10:18 pm to shawnlsu
On top of that, the red River is above flood stage from 3 rivers all the way north. Which was not the case in 2011. I’ve been saying since January that this flood season will be a bad one , and here we are
Posted on 5/22/19 at 10:25 pm to shawnlsu
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And the spillway itself is already in flood stage unlike the last time they opened it and the spillway was bone dry. This one's gonna hur
Yea this is the big issue. They have flooding there right now they didn’t have when it was opened last time. When they add to it they are gonna have some real problems
Posted on 5/22/19 at 11:13 pm to FelicianaTigerfan
Didn’t some guy post and say an old timer said it was gonna flood
Also, I was referring to diversions upstream of orcs. Make 2 rivers at this point
Also, I was referring to diversions upstream of orcs. Make 2 rivers at this point
Posted on 5/22/19 at 11:47 pm to jimjackandjose
Just seen where they are predicting 7-8” of rain in Iowa the next few days so not going to get any better soon.
Posted on 5/23/19 at 12:57 am to jimjackandjose
Yep that was me. I’ll try and find my post and link it tomorrow. I got a lot of shite on here for it
Posted on 5/23/19 at 4:25 am to lsupride87
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And dude did you intentionally remove the word may from what you quoted in the text?
No, I straight up copy pasted the text. The title wouldn't copy right on my phone so i typed that.
Posted on 5/23/19 at 6:50 am to celltech1981
Well we are headed to Belle River to sandbag. God speed to everyone.
Posted on 5/23/19 at 7:14 am to lsupride87
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celltech is good people. Not sure why he would do that
they changed the article up on me after I posted lol
Posted on 5/23/19 at 7:40 am to Tigerpaw123
There’s been water on the road by the Dow plant on Hwy 70 for two weeks now. Never seen it like that before. Opening the spillway will help that water recede or make it worse?
Posted on 5/23/19 at 7:44 am to deaconjones35
Worse.
Opening the spillway helps the ms river levee system below the control structure. That's it. Everything down that way is going to be affected my dramatically increased flow in the atchafalaya
Opening the spillway helps the ms river levee system below the control structure. That's it. Everything down that way is going to be affected my dramatically increased flow in the atchafalaya
This post was edited on 5/23/19 at 7:45 am
Posted on 5/23/19 at 7:46 am to deaconjones35
My post from the other thread:
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ETA: also, won’t the opening of the morganza help the belle river/ verret area, while hurting the areas around morganza?
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Quite the opposite. The lower Grand turns into Belle river and all that flows down to Morgan city and into the spillway via Bayou Chene. My camp has had 3' of water around it for a week. When the spillway is high, all that water drains painfully slow. When they sink that barge and block the drainage, any new rains will make the already flooded rivers rise faster and more.
It's a fricked up situation all around.
Posted on 5/23/19 at 7:58 am to jimjackandjose
quote:brings more
onder if this will flood the higs out of sherburne
Posted on 5/23/19 at 9:04 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Opening the spillway helps the ms river levee system below the control structure. That's it. Everything down that way is going to be affected my dramatically increased flow in the atchafalaya
This is just not true. Most of the damage being done is backwater off river flooding - other side of the levee- which cant go anywhere because of the high river. Opening Morganza will not only lower the river but almost overnight take this backwater out.
Its sad when politics gets involved but this is very much the case with Morganza. There is a lot of big money invested in camps/farmland in Morganza and there were several times in the last 4-5 years when it should have been opened and it wasn't.
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