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It's working so well, they're looking at doing it in other areas, too.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5goxcbTPw1pCwi99_QGLBx5jUH5rg?docId=c2bbb0ca91d84e81a943aef04f1d6bdf
Flood unease builds south along the Mississippi
(AP) 4 hours ago
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Flood worries that prompted the U.S. government to blast open a Missouri levee to ease pressure on some towns are rippling down the Mississippi River, leading to more evacuations and unease as the Army Corps of Engineers weighs whether to purposely inundate more land with water.
The breach of southeastern Missouri's Birds Point levee was heralded by some Illinois towns along the Ohio River as a needed relief from record flooding, and the man who ordered that action says he may do the same with other Mississippi River spillways as flood prospects mount.
Walsh has made clear he may use other downstream "floodways" basins surrounded by levees that can be intentionally blown open to divert floodwaters to try to rein in the trouble.
Among those that could be tapped are the 58-year-old Morganza floodway in central Louisiana and the Bonnet Carre floodway about 30 miles north of New Orleans. The 4-mile-wide Morganza has been pressed into service just once, in 1973. The Bonnet Carre christened in 1932 has been opened up nine times since 1937, the most recent in 2008.
Unlike the Missouri levee, these floodways can be opened using gates designed for the purpose, not explosives that unleashed the rush of floodwater into Birds Point that damaged or destroyed as many as 100 homes and washed away crop prospects for this year. Walsh said there are no homes in the Bonnet Carre floodway and only scattered homes and farmland in the Morganza one.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5goxcbTPw1pCwi99_QGLBx5jUH5rg?docId=c2bbb0ca91d84e81a943aef04f1d6bdf
Flood unease builds south along the Mississippi
(AP) 4 hours ago
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Flood worries that prompted the U.S. government to blast open a Missouri levee to ease pressure on some towns are rippling down the Mississippi River, leading to more evacuations and unease as the Army Corps of Engineers weighs whether to purposely inundate more land with water.
The breach of southeastern Missouri's Birds Point levee was heralded by some Illinois towns along the Ohio River as a needed relief from record flooding, and the man who ordered that action says he may do the same with other Mississippi River spillways as flood prospects mount.
Walsh has made clear he may use other downstream "floodways" basins surrounded by levees that can be intentionally blown open to divert floodwaters to try to rein in the trouble.
Among those that could be tapped are the 58-year-old Morganza floodway in central Louisiana and the Bonnet Carre floodway about 30 miles north of New Orleans. The 4-mile-wide Morganza has been pressed into service just once, in 1973. The Bonnet Carre christened in 1932 has been opened up nine times since 1937, the most recent in 2008.
Unlike the Missouri levee, these floodways can be opened using gates designed for the purpose, not explosives that unleashed the rush of floodwater into Birds Point that damaged or destroyed as many as 100 homes and washed away crop prospects for this year. Walsh said there are no homes in the Bonnet Carre floodway and only scattered homes and farmland in the Morganza one.
