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The Mississippi Flood of 1973 occurred between March and May 1973 on the lower Mississippi River. [5] The flood resulted in the largest volume of water to flow down the Mississippi since the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. Both the Bonnet Carre Spillway and the Morganza Spillway were employed. The Bonnet Carre was fully opened between April 7 ...
The Mississippi River exceeded flood stage at Vicksburg on 10 January 2019, then fell back below flood stage on 22 January 2019, before rising above flood stage again on 15 February 2019. During this first event, water levels on the protected side of the Steele Bayou Drainage Structure peaked at 91.5 feet (27.9 meters) then fell back to 89.2 ...
The gap also permits backwater flooding in the lower portion of the floodway. The floodway is designed to divert 550,000 cu ft/s (16,000 m 3 /s) from the Mississippi River during the "project design flood" hypothetical flood event. At this flow the level of the Mississippi River will drop 7 feet (2.1 m) at Cairo.
Iowa cities along the Mississippi River are enduring flooding this week as water moves downstream from parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin hit by the same late June storm system that sent northwest ...
Snowmelt from a record-setting winter snowfall in parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan sent a deluge of water into the Mississippi River this spring, flooding several cities and towns.
Should the Mississippi reach the projected major flood crest of 18.4 feet at St. Paul by this weekend, it would be the highest level recorded there since March 31, 2019, when floodwaters reached ...
Beginning in the 15th century, the Mississippi River created a small, westward, oxbow loop, later called Turnbull's Bend, near present-day Angola, Louisiana. This loop eventually intersected the Red River, making the downstream part of the Red River a distributary of the Mississippi; this distributary came to be called the Atchafalaya River. [3]
Flooding risks were highest for large sections of southeastern Louisiana, including New Orleans and the rest of the delta, and a strip of southwestern Mississippi, including the vast majority of ...