A Tale of Two Rivers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 พ.ย. 2019
- After the devastating Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the federal government engineered a plan to prevent future floods on the Mississippi River -- the world's longest and most intricate system of levees and flood ways. Watch this documentary and learn the history of how the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has harnessed the power of the mighty Mississippi River for the benefit of the nation.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District is engineering solutions to the nation’s toughest water resource challenges. One of USACE’s largest civil works districts, we cover a 68,000-square-mile area across portions of Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana that includes seven major river basins, nine watersheds, 10 flood control reservoirs and approximately 460 miles of mainline Mississippi River levees. Our missions include flood risk management, navigation, ecosystem restoration, water supply, regulatory, recreation, hydropower, emergency operations and support to contingency operations. Our workforce of 1,100 engineers, technical experts and other professionals are committed to the communities we serve.
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I happen to live close to the Old River Control Complex. The damage from the 73 flood can still be seen today, especially on the sonar in my boat. Massive scour holes and deep trenches dug by the raging waters. We use these features to catch some of the biggest catfish in the country!!!
I have no clue why this amazes me. I have been on a Mississippi River watching binge for days now.
me too.
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Because you’re human.
Natchez Mississippi is the best leisurely view I have ever seen of the river. Worth a look if you haven’t already been there.
Dont b affraid to learn somethin
While evacuated to Lafayette,, my Grandfather met my Grandmother.
I damn near died in the flood of 93. It was a crazy violent flood boy.
I can hear the country accent in your typing. Glad you made it mate
Hello from Kansas 🇺🇸
Texas passed a law to move water anywhere in the state from anywhere in TX. Looking at all the lakes in East Texas. The water is all surface water and easily depleted. The largest "consumer" of surface water is evaporation.
Looking at the Mississippi it would have to have more than one diversion point since floods in the north would not be helped by diverting from far south. It would have to be very, very huge. To prevent evaporative loss it would be better in a pipe or covered canal. What happens when the folks out west get used to the water and demand more & more when there have not been floods for a while? When the river gets low how are the barges going to cheaply transport goods?
Here in Texas one factor is everybody out west has to have their lawns, golf courses and flower gardens. The Edwards aquifer has dropped well over a hundred feet as of over 20 years ago.. I saw a TX state employee watering grass at a rest stop in the middle of a desert. Now they want to drain our lakes. In fact one year water was pumped frome one lake to another that was dangerously low, too much water pumped to Dallas, the Nation's highest per Capita water user.
I suggest looking at desalinization. Expensive but those who use need to pay not all of us who do not benefit from it. Flood control in the Mississippi basin? How about diverting to some huge lakes or water our plains for agriculture. There are droughts there too.
California needs to stop mooching off the rest of America and start being good responsible, contributing citizens.
I love that somehow you blame California even though Texas is doing the poor management. California doesn’t even get water from the Mississippi so you’re grasping at straws I guess.
We do grow too many high water crops here in California, but that’s a western watershed issue that all states are guilty of, and not anything to do with the Mississippi lol.
Whenever someone has a problem in a red state run by right wingers they still manage to blame California and the people there believe it. All these crime videos in Texas and Florida and the comments are usually “hurr durr democrats letting criminals out early” even though democrats haven’t run those states in decades lol.
USACE, USDA-ARS host ribbon cutting for pilot groundwater project
www.mvk.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Releases/Article/2653681/usace-usda-ars-host-ribbon-cutting-for-pilot-groundwater-project/
"Louisiana 1927"
What Has Happened Down Here Is The Wind Have Changed
Clouds Roll In From The North And It Started To Rain
Rained Real Hard And Rained For A Real Long Time
Six Feet Of Water In The Streets Of Evangeline
The River Rose All Day
The River Rose All Night
Some People Got Lost In The Flood
Some People Got Away Alright
The River Have Busted Through Cleard Down To Plaquemines
Six Feet Of Water In The Streets Of Evangelne
I wish I could tell you that corrupted lobbyists fought the good fight,
and the Sisters let them be. I wish I could tell you that -
but prison is no fairy-tale world. they never said who did it,
but we all knew.....Flood waters ...
Great song, it’s actually how I learned of this flood causing me to start researching, which lead me to these videos. Public education sucks.
I can't imagine what that was like. I was in Hannibal in 73 when it flooded that alone was terrible the night before it flooded. I had noticed it had dropped about 8in I thought well it's going to go down through the next morning I woke up the roof 16ft Water on Main Street
1993
Before I saw the Mississippi the biggest river I ever saw was the Colorado I thought that was a big river lol...
Imagine a presidential candidate running on a platform based on engineering and technology
That's why Europe is so much more advanced than we are. America is run by lawyers Switzerland is run by engineers.
Hoover was a mining? Engineer in China during the Boxer Rebellion and he had to hide out being a foreigner. Also he sent one of the first television transmissions from New York? to Washington DC? Interesting life story. His wife supposedly said about the TV something along the the lines of Oh My, I hope they don't invent a machine to read our minds. There is engineering and then there is overengineering.
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Europe is soooooo much better off.
But they don't rely on science & technology. They rely on politics too. It's just that you like their politics.
history repeats itself
this hit the Ohio river too was talked about a lot when I was a kid.
My grandmother I'm 54 told me as a kid that South Lebanon Ohio was flooded twice that she lived through. The little Miami River flowed through it.
She said it happened in the 50s once I can't remember the other time
I live on the Columbia River in the Portland/Vancouver area. And we get Plenty of Rain. Some have suggested punping it to California. Id rather Drown than give LA a single damn oz of water!! Ps KOBE RAPES
Well New Orleans was paid back 10 fold by Katrina
About where would a channel on the Mississippi River be made, below the Missouri River or below the Ohio River be? Then piped to the Colorado River Basin.
I have no engineering background, however I believe the concept of sending “Mississippi” River water to the Colorado makes sense. Obviously a very expensive proposition. A long term project with a long term construction budget. The high speed rail project in California is priced in the neighborhood. 100 billion dollars. First of all I see a project that would be used in years of average and above flows on tributaries. Mid Missouri River cities suffer from occasional flooding of months at a time. A tap on the Missouri Upriver from Pierre SD from Lake Oahe with good management could take some pressure off of those living down river. For reference the Alaska Pipeline capacity is 84 million gallons a day. That construction almost 50 years ago was certainly more difficult. Water pumped in years of excess could facilitate the filling of reservoirs on the Colorado. The reservoirs hold more than 4 years of 100% of the Colorado flow. A second tap could be placed on the main stem below the confluence with the Ohio river. The Missouri River water is more similar to the Colorado than the big muddy.
Those Rocky Mountains will be a hurdle.
They should have kept Saint Bernard.
Unfortunetly New Orleans is all they know. None of us other southeast Loiusiana cities matter. They would wipe us all out to save that piss pour citty.
The narrator sounds like Stacy Keach
I believe that it is, lol.
Sergeant Stadanko?
It is stacey
@@tomshiba51 yes
No one thought to just move further from the river? Why the need to control it?
Well, if you live over a bluff on the river and it is un controlled, you would have to move your home about every other week depending on the time of year. In the spring, the river channel could move a half mile in a few weeks. Google Fisk Maps and thatll give a good idea of the situation. Thanks!
River should be deepen,levee reinforced, but biggest solution must be done- huge irrigation and pumping scheme to divert water to west,to Colorado River
That is utterly stupid for more reasons than I could list.
that is completely infeasible logistically, the west just needs to get better at conserving their water.
A system could be made to reroute the water to a huge dark lake waiting for extra water then it could be diverted to Lake Powell wand other systems to provide water for the west. The pumps required to lift the water to the higher altitude could be created by this excess water being routed through a hydroelectric system in the pipe lines to supply this water.
There isn't always excess water. Even if the huge costs of pumping water a thousand miles to the west could be overcome, the system could not be dependable. In some years the Mississippi river has low flows. Indeed, in some months of a given year the flow is greatly reduced. Water is very heavy, pumping costs would be greater than desalination of ocean water.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?
The same thing happened 1973 the river was close 120 feet above flood ,stage all for the love of cotton,,
Well, all that flood water would be awsome if you was growing rice.
Water should be diverted at Cairo and sent west to the colorado river.. I prefer over the red desert in wyoming. Also enough resivores should be built throughout the Midwest that huge rainstorm can be stoped from reaching the missippi. It's a crime so much water is wasted into the ocean
Trying to farm the desert is waste looking at the changes taking place in the climate right now it makes no sense the CV olirado river used to run to the vpacific it no longer does that's how much water is diverted to support living in desert areas it takes alot of water it's a wasteof natural resources.
??it's ashamed water has been wasted on the ocean???
Water belongs in the ocean. Water doesn't belong to you, it doesn't belong to me. Water returns from whence it came. Mankind will meet its master.
Oh because you say so ? Inthe real world we have to think about logistics and other people's supply
Narrator speaks so blithe.
Farmers were responsible for levees.
Continental US ....Mighty Mississippi.
This is pretty old, but great footage. I can tell its pretty old, because it is well known now, that Herbert Hoover was a terrible human being.
Why is that? 🤔
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They needed millions of beavers, but they killed them all for money. Think of all the trees and soil they wasted building those tall levees for thousands of miles. Man ruins everything by trying to control natural occurrences. Even the Pannama Canal is failing these days. Inventions are good but men must constantly monitor their structures and work with nature....