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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 ...
A multi-day deluge of rainfall across the South created dangerous and life-threatening flooding in parts of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi this week. ... including Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s ...
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 Baton Rouge River Center served as a shelter for hundreds of displaced flood victims. With an estimated 146,000 [ 30 ] homes damaged in the flooding thousands of Louisianans were forced into shelters, with more than 11,000 in state-operated shelters. [ 31 ]
Cars were stuck in high floodwater in Baton Rouge on May 17, as severe weather prompted Louisiana’s governor to declare a state of emergency.The National Weather Service issued a flash flood ...
The United States Army Corps of Engineers stated that an area in Louisiana between Simmesport and Baton Rouge was expected to be inundated with 20–30 feet (6.1–9.1 m) of water. [14] Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and many other river towns were threatened, [15] [16] but officials stressed that they should be able to avoid catastrophic flooding. [17]
Devastating flooding, driven in part by climate change, is taking an especially damaging toll on communities that once thrived along the banks of America's most storied river. Flooding has pushed ...
The flood stage at Baton Rouge was 42.10 feet on May 10. Farther down the River at Donaldsonville the flood stage reached 32.30 feet on April 9, which was the 10th highest crest of record. At Reserve, the crest was 24.50 ft on April 8, 7 highest on record.