re: Miss River Flood Thread 2016, river back on the rise again.......

If you you read our last couple post we have buried the hatchet. I do not see anymore BS from either one of us. We both feel very passionate about veiws & things like this happen. Usually its over a whiskey drink & not the OB. I have respect for him & will probably disagree with him in the future. But neither will get personal or air it on the OB.


I am humbled & appreciate this platform to discuss the rise.

There recently has been some lobbing in Baton Rouge for new survives. Most of the survives of the rivers in use are 80 years old. There has also been meetings with the Comps to get a joint effort. It has been falling on deaf ears though. It will take the public getting envolved & behind it to get anything done. The Corps & levees are extremely under funded.

In my opinion everything outside the levees don't have much to worry about. That can always change with a 12 inch blanket of rain over the valley that drains into the Mississippi over 4/5 states. I like absolutes & right now our levee & damn systems is not an absolute.

Build the levees to twice thier size. Then keyhole concrete them. & that point it is done & over with. No more worries. It will that the publics backing to help the Corp to get it done. Everyone's insurance would go down at that point also.

He wants to know expected crest at black water:river at acme if Morganza is opened.

Nice to see y'all both vaguely mentioned the real biggest fear on miss river right now.......

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He wants to know expected crest at black water:river at acme if Morganza is opened.

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To be honest I am not all that familier with the Black River. I see it is predicted to crest at 48.5ft on Jan 18. The Red at Alexandria will crest on the 13th and Little River at Rochelle will crest that same day.

So given the Morganza is below these rivers obviously it will not add additional flow to these rivers. So its a question of backwater. I don't think you will see a backwater effect from Morganza that far up. In 2011 the Old River Control structure created backwater in the Red but the Red was much lower in 2011. Since the Red is higher this year they will send less water down the outfall channel.

So to answer your question given the situation I just described I don't think it will effect the crest at Amce. But don't take that as gospel.

Hope this helps.

Thanks Scottie. I don't understand it all but he does. Passed it on and thanks again.

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Sorry but what Are eagles

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Big eagles. They been nesting in the fore bay around 9 or 10 years now. Another pair nest in the river bend on the east side of the fore bay.

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I'm about to up with one of the Eagles of the fore bay for a last tour before it gets it high. Any questions or pics that anyone is interested in, just let me know.

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Here is a link to our gage we install on the for bay side of the structure earlier in the week. You can see when it overtopped to potato levee and now the steady rise.

Believe top of structure is about 65 ft and they opened Morganza last tile at 62ft

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