Posted on 05/10/2011 10:12:16 PM PDT by chemicalman
BUTTE LAROSE, La. |
Ripples of fear rose Tuesday along the normally placid bayous of the Atchafalaya basin, the corridor through which a torrent of surging water could be unleashed if authorities decide in coming days to ease the strain on Mississippi River levees by opening the Morganza Spillway northwest of Baton Rouge.
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The Corp learned their lesson and build a spillway south of New Orleans. There is quite a history behind that spillway.
yitbos
Someday the Mississippi will flow down the Atchafalaya again.
Maybe this year?
Tomorrow?
Read an interesting factoid about the Old River Control Structure.
Evidently, the worry is more about its base/foundation being undermined at the riverbed level.
yitbos
I am worried about all the “swamp people” that make their homes there. Will those houses be under water, like in Houma, LA? It seems to me like if they open the Morganza spillway it will flood all the swamp land. Also, I would like to know if it will wash away all the fish and vegetation, wildlife, gators? I am curious.
Thanks.
The river will do what it wills, regardless of the machinations of the Corps of Engineers.
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