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On May 3, using the planned procedures for the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, the Corps of Engineers blasted a two-mile (3 km) hole in the levee protecting the floodway, flooding 130,000 acres (530 km 2) of farmland in Mississippi County, Missouri, in an effort to save the town of Cairo, Illinois and the rest of the levee system, from record-breaking flood waters. [19]
The Mississippi River floods in April and May 2011 were among the largest and most damaging along the U.S. waterway in the past century, rivalling major floods in 1927 and 1993. In April 2011, two major storm systems dumped record rainfall on the Mississippi River watershed .
The 2011 Mississippi River floods began to become serious in April. In response, the Corps first analyzed the flooding, and then opened the spillway in a controlled manner. The Corps studied four flooding scenarios, all of which assumed the Bonnet Carré Spillway would be concurrently operating at full capacity (100%).
Last week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flooded Vicksburg, Miss., to save New Orleans. The waters crested May 19 in the old Southern city at 57.1 feet, surpassing a record set 84 years ago ...
Old River low-sill control structure discharging water into the Atchafalaya, May 2011. The Old River Control Structure is a floodgate system in a branch of the Mississippi River in central Louisiana. It regulates the flow of water from the Mississippi into the Atchafalaya River, thereby preventing the Mississippi River from changing course.
Flooding has pushed people out of their homes near the Mississippi River at a roughly 30% higher rate than the U.S. as a whole, according to data provided exclusively to The Associated Press by ...
$14.2 billion (2011 USD) Hurricane Irene: North Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Florida, East Coast of the United States: 2011 Tornado: 346 $11 billion (2011 USD) 2011 Super Outbreak: Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Arkansas and Virginia: 336 tornadoes 2011 Flood: 20 $2–4 billion [45] [46] 2011 Mississippi River floods ...
Thin layer placement is typically used on the coasts to combat sea-level rise. This is the first time it's being used on the Mississippi River to restore floodplain forests.