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The Morganza Spillway, a 4,159-foot (1,268 m) controlled spillway using a set of flood gates to control the volume of water entering the Morganza Floodway from the Mississippi River, consists of a concrete weir, two sluice gates, seventeen scour indicators, and 125 gated openings which can allow up to 600,000 cubic feet per second (17,000 cubic metres per second) of water to be diverted from ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 14:48, 14 May 2011: 2,550 × 1,651 (977 KB): Kkmurray {{Information |Description ={{en|1=United States Army Corps of Engineers estimated Inundation Map Scenario 1a depicts the anticipated impacts from operation of the Morganza Floodway at 25% of its capacity with full operation of the Bonnet Carre’ Spil
The Morganza to the Gulf Hurricane Protection Project is a flood protection system for Terrebonne Parish and Lafourche Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana.The targeted area is bounded on the west by Bayou Du Large and LA 311 (Louisiana State Highway 311) and on the east by Bayou Lafourche. [1]
The proposed operation would have diverted 150,000 cfs from the Mississippi River into the Morganza Floodway. The planned operation was postponed (and eventually cancelled) when subsequent forecasts indicated that stages would be lower than originally predicted. [57] [58]
The floodway can reduce stress by diverting additional water from the Mississippi into the Atchafalaya. [15] The Morganza Floodway was never used before the construction of Old River Control Structure, and as of 2016 has been opened only twice [ 16 ] for flood control since completion of the Old River Control Structure.
After testing, the water will be released into the Big Ditch floodway that runs along the water treatment plant at 21st and Hoover. Where does the water go?
Morganza is an incorporated village near the Mississippi River in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 610 at the 2010 census , down from 659 in 2000 . As of 2020 the population was 525.
The Atchafalaya Basin system comprises three floodways. Two of these, the West Atchafalaya Floodway and the Morganza Floodway, are at the northern end.Together with the Atchafalaya River, these floodways are designed to pass flood waters into the third component, the Lower Atchafalaya Basin Floodway, which is 833,000 acres (3,370 km 2) in size and is bounded on the north by U.S. Route 190, on ...