Morganza Spillway
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The Morganza Spillway or Morganza Control Structure is a flood-control structure in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is located along the western bank of the Lower Mississippi River at river mile 280,
The Morganza Spillway, between the Mississippi River and the Atchafalaya Basin, shown while open in 1973. Water flows from the Mississippi (upper right) into the Morganza Floodway (lower left).
One of the 125 gates on the tail bay side of the Morganza Floodway.
Anticipated inundation from Scenario 1
Anticipated inundation from Scenario 1a
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
Morganza Spillway
…general, Congress passed the Flood Control Act of 1928. This authorized the United States Army Corps of Engineers to build the Bonnet Carre Spillway, the Birds Point floodway in Missouri, and the Morganza Floodway as part of the 1928 Mississippi River and Tributaries Project. Construction of the levees that make up part of…
Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway levees.
Project design flood flows for the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway.