#2383444 - 05/02/11 03:57 PM
Re: closer to blowing Birds Point levee
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Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh of the Army Corps of Engineers will make an announcement about the Birds Point levee at 5 p.m., corps representatives at Sikeston said just after 2 p.m. Monday.
Corps spokesman Jim Pogue wouldn't say what the general's announcement would be. Walsh is the head of the Mississippi River Commission and the man charged with making a decision on the intentional breach of the levee. The breach would flood about 200 acres of prime farm land in Mississippi County, Mo., in order to relieve pressure on other points of the river flood-control system, including at Cairo, Ill.
The rain has not only increased the rapid rise of the Ohio River at Cairo, but it has delayed the placement of explosives into pipes at the Birds Point levee.
Pogue said just before 2 p.m. that barge crews were still loading the explosives. After the loading is finished, it would take three hours to be ready for blasting, if the order is given. The corps hasn't said yet that it definitely plans to breach the levee.
http://www.semissourian.com/story/1723568.html
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#2383457 - 05/02/11 04:06 PM
Re: closer to blowing Birds Point levee
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I think the article misrepresented the Floodway's acreage.....it's about 200 sq. miles, not 200 acres.
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#2383473 - 05/02/11 04:20 PM
Re: closer to blowing Birds Point levee
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At the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh will make a call that likely means devastation on one side of the waters or the other.
The 55-year-old officer, whose nearly two decades of command in the Army Corps of Engineers includes a stint in Iraq and helping oversee the restoration of the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, is choosing now whether to blow a
massive hole in the Birds Point levee in southeast Missouri. Doing so will drown 130,000 acres of rich farmland and destroy 100 homes. Opting not to risks that flooding will wipe away the entire town of Cairo, Ill. It also has consequences on the entire levee system.
Robert Jackson, a commissioner in Mississippi County, Mo., who owns 1,500 acres in the floodway, became animated and even mildly cursed during the forum in East Prairie, saying that blasting the levee would not only damage farm land but undo millions of dollars of work the county has done on everything from roads to ditches.
Walsh remained calm, but stood firm that all options were on the table. And Jackson said later that he understands what the general is up against.
"Human lives come first," Jackson said. If people died because a levee broke downriver, "They'd drag him in front of a Senate committee tomorrow to answer for it."
http://www.semissourian.com/story/1723718.html
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#2383519 - 05/02/11 05:18 PM
Re: closer to blowing Birds Point levee
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channel 3 news Memphis just stated a 5:19 pm today that they will start blowing the levee at 9:00 tonight
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#2383522 - 05/02/11 05:20 PM
Re: closer to blowing Birds Point levee
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channel 3 news Memphis just stated a 5:19 pm today that they will start blowing the levee at 9:00 tonight
Quote from Corps:
Birds Point New Madrid Floodway Joint Information Center
"We expect to execute the project between 9:00 p.m and midnight tonight"
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#2383580 - 05/02/11 06:47 PM
Re: closer to blowing Birds Point levee
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Unbelievable!
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#2383621 - 05/02/11 07:23 PM
Re: closer to blowing Birds Point levee
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Current forecasts do not take into account even current rain events, let alone future rain events. They only address the water in the channel already.
I mean no disrespect but that is 100% untrue.
We have had the Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center ingesting our 5 day rainfall forecast into their models since last Thursday.
Usually they only ingest the next 48 hours, but given the gravity of this situation we asked, and they honored our request.
We(the NWS in Memphis) have been working very closely with the LMRFC to get then most accurate forecast they can.
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#2383647 - 05/02/11 07:36 PM
Re: closer to blowing Birds Point levee
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This has really gotten overblown in the media. Blowing the levy will add exactly ZERO additional water to the River system...it will just take a different path to get back to the mainstream.
On the Mississippi, Tiptonville and Caruthersville might see a 6 inch bump due to the increased speed of water surging into the St Francis then to the MS initially but as it dissipates the river levels should return to what they were before the blast. Again NO extra water is entering the system.
...either way there is going to be some catastrophic flooding on the MS River...but blowing up this levee is just an exciting story.
Edited by BamaProud (05/02/11 07:38 PM)
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#2383654 - 05/02/11 07:40 PM
Re: closer to blowing Birds Point levee
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Unless you are one of those property owners here http://www.semissourian.com/files/bpnm_floodway.pdf
this reall isn't a big deal.
I just hope they film it.
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