2019 Mississippi River

Another useful site. It gives you the state of the Mississippi river at a glance.

http://rivergages.mvr.usace.army.mil...new/layout.cfm

Click "new orleans" then "Mississippi river and passes"

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Originally Posted by mahtoo

IMO the same can be said of our many structures and levee systems. As you say we, our structures, levees, etc are puny but I don't think we will see the Miss R going down the Atchafalaya, at least not in my lifetime. As long as we pay attention and spend the money.

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This lifetime prediction made me feel better, till I remembered I don't know how old you are..... :-)

If the Old River Control Structure were lost........

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/If...en=cat6-widget

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Originally Posted by HelmutVII

I think we have a better chance of an errant barge or a ship losing it's steering causing damage to a levee during high water events.

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Now that is a real possibility I forgot about. It's for that reason that traffic on the river is sometimes stopped.

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Originally Posted by CharlieK

This lifetime prediction made me feel better, till I remembered I don't know how old you are..... :-)

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:) 67

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Originally Posted by mahtoo

:) 67

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OK....glad you didn't say 97.

I'm 46 so still a pretty good chance this may occur during my time on earth. I plan to live to 150 or so....gotta see the Cajuns win a BCS championship in football...

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Originally Posted by CharlieK

OK....glad you didn't say 97.

I'm 46 so still a pretty good chance this may occur during my time on earth. I plan to live to 150 or so....gotta see the Cajuns win a BCS championship in football...

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Send me the papers. I'll sign a contract for 97 right now.

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Originally Posted by mahtoo

Send me the papers. I'll sign a contract for 97 right now.

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Your feelings is they will figure out the sedimentation problem?

More severe weather in the plains and upper mid west this weekend.

https://youtu.be/nEkaH7nzcUw

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Originally Posted by Cajun90

If the Old River Control Structure were lost........

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/If...en=cat6-widget

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Good read until “climate change”.

Due to the heavy rains we had yesterday and the continued high water due to higher than normal flows in the Atchafalaya Rier.

https://kpel965.com/voluntary-evacua...martin-parish/

and more severe weather in the great plains heading to the mid west. All in the Red Rier or Mississippi river basins. All of it eventually flows through Louisiana.

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Originally Posted by basinbear

That last sentence of yours is a downright scary thought.

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Yes sir it is. Drove thru Butte LaRose this weekend. Water along roadway in many spots between pontoon bridge and levee.

The last time the Mississippi River was this high for this long, it prompted the federal government to build the modern levee system.

The river has been in flood stage for months, and on Tuesday, will hit 136 days in flood stage at Baton Rouge, breaking the record set in 1927.

What's more, the river is still in major flood stage and rising, though held in place by the levees. Meteorologists say they expect it will stay in flood stage "well into summer."

The rest of the story

Its time for this thread to go back to current reports on the State of the River.

Meanwhile ...

Ole Man River keeps rolling along.

Severe weather continues in the Mississippi river basin.

History shows again and again how Nature points out the folly of men.....

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Originally Posted by HelmutVII

Severe weather continues in the Mississippi river basin.

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In your opinion how much of a concern is the extended length of this high water and it's affect on the levee system integrity?

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Originally Posted by CharlieK

In your opinion how much of a concern is the extended length of this high water and it's affect on the levee system integrity?

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It certainly is not good. the levees can get saturated and slough off or fail. Most of the lower Mississippi river has been above flood stage since the first of the year.

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Originally Posted by HelmutVII

It certainly is not good. the levees can get saturated and slough off or fail. Most of the lower Mississippi river has been above flood stage since the first of the year.

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Just my <s>scientific</s> observations of water flow in ditches near my house, when the grass dies, the dirt is history.

Most of this. In the Mississippi river basin.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...hern-Plai.html

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Originally Posted by Turbine

Just my <s>scientific</s> observations of water flow in ditches near my house, when the grass dies, the dirt is history.

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Need to quit P’ing in the ditch. Save our ditches.

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Originally Posted by Turbine

Just my <s>scientific</s> observations of water flow in ditches near my house, when the grass dies, the dirt is history.

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I have noticed that many people that have used herbicides in their ditches have caused more problems than they solved.

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Originally Posted by HelmutVII

I have noticed that many people that have used herbicides in their ditches have caused more problems than they solved.

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I know of side by side neighbors where over time the herbicide treated ditch grew to 3 times the size of the neighbors trimmed ditch.

Identical water flow.

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Originally Posted by HelmutVII

It certainly is not good. the levees can get saturated and slough off or fail. Most of the lower Mississippi river has been above flood stage since the first of the year.

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To add info

Predictions (see post 369 for link to predictions) are that we will see a slow fall starting in the next few days. A steady slow fall is better than a fast drastic fall. Less chance of saturated levee slopes sloughing off.

Failures are unpredictable and sometimes aren't related to saturation from high river water on the slopes as much as saturation from high, sustained rainfall, or even just poor foundation conditions. It's my understanding there is a failure on the West Atchafalaya Basin Protection Levee (WABPL) (call it the Henderson Levee for easy descriptive purpose) north of I 10. Not much water if any against the flood side of the levee in that area.