Posted by john in la on April 08, 2008 at 17:20:59 from (65.6.81.212):
In Reply to: Re: Field Work posted by John S-B on April 08, 2008 at 07:14:39:
Yes it does make for a weird site to stand on flat ground looking at a levee 20' high and you can still see a push (tug) boat pushing 35 to 40 barges (thats about 250 wide by 1/4 mile long)down the river.
The river is a 16.1 ft right now. They will not open the spillway until they perdict 17' and rising. The levees protect us to about 23 to 25'. It is nothing like St Louis or Memphis though. We have 3 spillways we can open to drain the river to prevent a flood. One of them was opened last in 1997 (I think) and the other 2 have never been opened.
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