2019 Mississippi River

[CajunEXPRESS]

What is the western side of the Mississippi River?

Edgard , Lake Salvador.

[HelmutVII]

What is the western side of the Mississippi River?

As you are going down stream the western side of the Mississippi is to your right.

[Policarp]

Just crossed the Ohio @ Paducah, KY, earlier in day the Mississippi et Missouri Rivers at StL. My expert analysis....Lot of ____ing water up here

[HelmutVII]

Just crossed the Ohio @ Paducah, KY, earlier in day the Mississippi et Missouri Rivers at StL. My expert analysis....Lot of ____ing water up here

Still a lot of snow to melt too.

Do you go by Policarp up there? Just wondering.

[LouisianaB]

Ignorant question. Lets say the Mississippi jumps the ORCS or at Widow Graham Bend. What does that look like? Not just for Atchfayla region, but down the current Mississippi flow

[CharlieK]

As you are going down stream the western side of the Mississippi is to your right.

So how do we send more water down one half of a river than we send down the other half? Seems like a good trick.

[Cajun90]

Ignorant question. Lets say the Mississippi jumps the ORCS or at Widow Graham Bend. What does that look like? Not just for Atchfayla region, but down the current Mississippi flow

Well on the Atchafayla side you are looking at flooding throughout the basin and siltation of the Atchafayla Bay.

For the current flow path you would be looking at it becoming an unnavigable waterway for many segments and salt water intrusion all the way up to Baton Rouge.

[HelmutVII]

Well on the Atchafayla side you are looking at flooding throughout the basin and siltation of the Atchafayla Bay.

For the current flow path you would be looking at it becoming an unnavigable waterway for many segments and salt water intrusion all the way up to Baton Rouge.



What he said AND you can pretty much kiss Morgan City good bye.

[HelmutVII]

So how do we send more water down one half of a river than we send down the other half? Seems like a good trick.

The Bonnet Carre Spillway discharges water from the EAST bank of the river through Lake Ponctchartrain to the EAST to Mississippi. Apparently the decision was made that was to place to construct the spillway to protect the grater New Orleans area flooding. From a land building standpoint I think the best place would have been on the west bank of the river just east of St. Charles and discharge to the gulf through Lake Salvador. That is a little bit further downstream from the current location of the Bonnet Carre.

[CharlieK]

The Bonnet Carre Spillway discharges water from the EAST bank of the river through Lake Ponctchartrain to the EAST to Mississippi. Apparently the decision was made that was to place to construct the spillway to protect the grater New Orleans area flooding. From a land building standpoint I think the best place would have been on the west bank of the river just east of St. Charles and discharge to the gulf through Lake Salvador. That is a little bit further downstream from the current location of the Bonnet Carre.

Oh I get that. I was being a smartass. You can't send more water down one half of a river. You CAN discharge that water (at least in the case of the Mississippi) from various man made spots on both sides of the river into other river/bodies of water/drainage basins. I imagine he wants them to discharge into the Atchafalaya basin via morganza and old river sooner and at greater amounts versus via Bonnet Carre....at least that's what I'm guessing he meant. Does protection of one particular fishery over the other enter into the equation of when/where to discharge?