Corps Pulls Out All the Stops To Cope With Rising River

摘要

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is using a variety of measures, including opening three massive river diversion features-the Bonnet Carre, Birds Point-New Madrid and Morganza flood-ways-to relieve pressure on the Mississippi River watershed. Water spewed skyward at the rate of 10,000 cu ft per second on May 14 as the first vertical-lift gate was opened on the Morganza Floodway. It was die Corps' third big control measure in the flood fight and marked the first time that three main control structures on the lower Mississippi were opened at the same time.