Aerial Footage of the Morganza Spillway Opening
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Flooding is GOOD for the land. Human beings stopping that flood by building dams are strangling the life of the river and estuaries and deltas which are vital for millions of young fish to mature in.
The colorado delta (now a desert); would be but one example. Floods restore nutrients to the land - which is why many farmers grow crops near rivers. Let the rivers flood for a healthier planet. It's that simple.
Agriculture will slowly die without flooding. FACT! We need to get in balance.
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i passed by the spillway a couple days after they opened it and i saw so many people bowfishing on the other side. just wannted to go home and get my bow and join them
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@ORYAN918 what????? this IS the reason why baton rouge and New orleans will not flood.
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@ptaylor7805 that's because what you are looking at is a diversion gate of the mississppi river.Historicly a certain percentage of the water in the river went into the atchafalaya river basin to the gulf of mexico. These levees and gates were put there to control the river from turning because it is trying to.So must of the river would continue on it's persent course because the river was trying to shift the amount of water from the course now to the basin and they do not want that.
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Amazing. I looked up the location of the spillway on Google Maps out of curiousity and I was surprised that it is approx. 2 km west of the normal river bank. I thought the spillway was on the river bank. The Mississippi side of the gates looks like a sea or at the very least a large lake (like Pontchartrain) and it's close to the road bed. God bless all of those people that are in this situation.
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The Morganza is a 'Dry' spillway. Once the Mississippi goes down to normal levels, the spillway will be high and dry.
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what if they cant get these old gates to shut?
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i dont think its going to help! What is going on!
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muddy08700 9 months ago
@muddy08700 Send me a message or something when that happens. I'll try to get a video of it for everyone. Hopefully, I'll find out about any more openings right away so people can see it as it happens.
chrisdier 9 months ago