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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 ...
The 1973 flood was the first time the Morganza Spillway was opened: from April 19 through June 13. At Memphis, Tennessee , the Mississippi was over flood stage for 63 days, more than that of the historic 1927 flood , and the river was above flood stage for an even longer 107 days at upstream Cairo, Illinois . [ 3 ]
Elliot City was abandoned in 1939 when its residents were forced to leave due to the construction of the Morganza Spillway. This area is inside the floodway levee system and was entirely underwater when the floodway gates at the Morganza control structure were opened in 1973 and 2011 to relieve the high water level of the Mississippi River.
Levee breaches or "crevasses" occurred at Morganza and Grand Levee just downriver in 1850, 1865, 1867, and 1890. The Morganza Spillway, a major flood diversion project of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is located immediately north of the town. Construction on this mammoth work began in 1939 and was completed in 1955.
Louisiana Highway 973 (LA 973) runs 1.12 miles (1.80 km) in a north–south direction along Ben Sterling Road from a point near the Morganza Spillway levee to a junction with LA 417 south of Quinton. [26] The route's mileposts increase from the northern end contrary to common practice. The entire route is in Pointe Coupee Parish.
May 27—RAYMONDVILLE — Across the Rio Grande Valley, many residents cringe when they remember the sudden June storm gushing into homes across much of the area nearly three years ago. The year ...
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
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