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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers measured the amount of water flowing through the Mississippi River and compared it to the amount entering the Atchafalaya Basin by monitoring "latitude flow" at the latitude of the Red River Landing, located five miles (8.0 km) downstream of Old River. In this case, latitude flow is a combination of the flows of ...
The Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway is a flood control component of the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project located on the west bank of the Mississippi River in southeast Missouri just below the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. [1] The construction of the floodway was authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1928 and later ...
A diagram that depicts river flows flow through the Morganza Spillway to the Red and Atchafalaya Rivers associated with a project design flood, which is the hypothetical "maximum probable" flood of the Mississippi River, as estimated by the Corps of Engineers. The water channel flow rates are listed in cubic feet per second.
Mississippi River water levels are plummeting to an all-time low this week at Memphis in the wake of a ... The Army Corps of Engineers has been extending an underwater levee in the river to slow ...
The low water levels have made a unique rock formation in the Mississippi River, usually surrounded by water, accessible by foot, and the Army Corps of Engineers is increasing the size of a levee ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway on May 9, 2011. The floodgate inlet is offset into the Mississippi River bank, at a location that had seen natural flooding for at least two centuries. The concrete structure has been designed to reduce settling into the riverbank.
Mississippi River water levels are plummeting to an all-time low this week at Memphis in the wake of a sweltering summer and ongoing drought – setting a record for the second consecutive year ...
The Chain of Rocks Lock is operated by the St. Louis District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Locks No. 27 are the southernmost locks on the Mississippi River and they are the only Locks south of the confluence of the Mississippi River and Missouri River. As such, the Locks move more cargo than any other navigation structure on the ...