The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened the first bay at the Morganza Floodway on May 14th. Photos by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Public Affairs, USACEpublicaffairs on flickr. “Intended to operate during emergency flooding, the purpose of the Morganza Floodway is to divert excess floodwater from the Mississippi River into the Atchafalaya [...]
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Opening the Morganza Floodway
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011Interactive Map: Flooding in the Midwest
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011An interactive map from the Wall Street Journal displays the severity of the flooding currently happening in the US Midwest, where “Monday evening, the Ohio River gauge at Cairo read 61.44 feet, nearly two feet higher than the record of 59.51 feet set in 1937.”
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
Welcome to An Eye on Infrastructure, an ASCE podcast series sponsored by ASCE Committee on Critical Infrastructure. An Eye on Infrastructure features industry experts discussing current issues relating to critical infrastructure.
This episode discusses ASCE’s Guiding Principles for theNation’s Critical Infrastructure featuring Joe Manous, Jr., P.E., Ph.D., D.WRE, F. ASCE Future Directions Team Leader for the Institute for Water Resources, US Army Corps of Engineers
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