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October 19, 2022 at 10:25 AM. Historically low water levels in the Mississippi reveal shipwreck from 1915. (AP Photo/Sara Cline) Patrick Ford was walking along the banks of the Mississippi River ...
The Corps had estimated that it would take opening 31 of the Spillway’s 125 bays to control the flow of the river through Baton Rouge in response to a forecast crest of 45 feet (14 m) anticipated on Tuesday, May 17, 2011, which must remain below 1,500,000 cu ft/s (42,000 m 3 /s) of water per second through Baton Rouge to ensure the integrity ...
The Mississippi River [b] is the primary river, and second-longest river, of the largest drainage basin in the United States. [c] [15] [16] From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it flows generally south for 2,340 miles (3,766 km) [16] to the Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Old River Control Structure is a complex containing the original low-sill [6] and overbank [7] structures, as well as the auxiliary structure that was constructed after the low-sill structure was damaged during the Mississippi River Flood of 1973. The complex also contains a navigation lock and the Sidney A. Murray Jr. Hydroelectric Station.
990 mi (1,600 km) Lower Mississippi from New Orleans to Baton Rouge is navigable by large ships. The Lower Mississippi River is the portion of the Mississippi River downstream of Cairo, Illinois. From the confluence of the Ohio River and Upper Mississippi River at Cairo, the Lower flows just under 1000 miles (1600 km) to the Gulf of Mexico. [1]
The Amite River / ˈeɪ.mit / ( French: Rivière Amite) is a tributary of Lake Maurepas in Mississippi and Louisiana in the United States. It is about 117 miles (188 km) long. [2] It starts as two forks in southwestern Mississippi and flows south through Louisiana, passing Greater Baton Rouge, to Lake Maurepas.
Construction cost. $46 million [1] Opened. April 10, 1968 [2] Statistics. Daily traffic. 107,000 (2005) Location. The Horace Wilkinson Bridge (locally known as the New Bridge) is a cantilever bridge carrying Interstate 10 in Louisiana across the Mississippi River from Port Allen in West Baton Rouge Parish to Baton Rouge in East Baton Rouge Parish.
WMGA. / 38.423889°N 82.535556°W / 38.423889; -82.535556. WMGA (97.9 FM, "The River") is a classic hits and oldies formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Kenova, West Virginia, serving Huntington, West Virginia, Ironton, Ohio, and Ashland, Kentucky. WMGA is licensed to Fifth Avenue Broadcasting Company, Inc.