NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Mississippi River in Louisiana is getting deeper.The state and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday agreed to start deepening the shipping channel from the Gulf of Mexico to Baton Rouge from a depth of 45 feet (13.7 meters) to 50 feet (15.2 meters). 4 people have been reported dead as of May 3rd, 2019.Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993The Great flood of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers 2019Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993The Great flood of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers 2019Hoyt, William G. and W.B. Saints will play 2020 home-opener without fans in attendance

The first levee break along the Mississippi River occurred a few miles south of Elaine, Arkansas on March 29. The move will also provide deep draft access to the ports at Plaquemines, New Orleans, South Louisiana and Baton Rouge, officials said.One foot of additional depth will allow about $1 million in additional cargo, enabling vendors to use the Mississippi River, once the dredging is completed, and its inland tributaries versus the more expensive land bridges, state officials said.“When completed, this project will allow larger vessels that can currently use the widened Panama Canal to reach Louisiana ports as far north as Baton Rouge,” Gov. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1955. p. 422. Motorists are detoured onto side streets. The White and Little Red rivers broke through the levees in Arkansas in February, flooding over 400 km (99,000 acres) with 3 to 5 m (9.8 to 16.4 ft) of water. LSU AD releases statement as conferences debate canceling college football season More than 23,000 square miles (60,000 square km) of land was submerged, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced, and some 250 people died. “From a benefit cost perspective, that equates to a benefit (of) $7.20 for every dollar spent on operation and maintenance, a significant return on investment.”Funding for the approximately $250 million project has been allocated through a variety of sources, the governor said. Livingston daycare employee arrested on juvenile cruelty charges John Bel Edwards said in a news release.. “It will also allow for some vessels to carry heavier loads.

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On Christmas Day of 1926, the Cumberland River at Nashville, Tennessee, exceeded 56 ft 2 in (17.1 m), a level that remains a record to this day, higher than the devastating 2010 floods. Hundreds of students move into LSU residence halls As the non-federal sponsor, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development has committed $81 million, he said. In the summer of 1926 until the spring of 1927, heavy rains fell in eastern Over the next six weeks, numerous levees broke along the Mississippi River from Flooding between March and May resulted in Baton Rouge reaching its second highest recorded crest at 45.18 feet (13.77 m) on April 29. In the summer of 1926 until the spring of 1927, heavy rains fell in eastern Kansas, Oklahoma, and the Ohio Valley. The Bonnet Carre Spillway was opened for the second time for 57 days.The spring 1965 flood on the Upper Mississippi is still the flood of record for from about 100 miles north of Minneapolis, Minnesota to Hannibal, Missouri.Many of the record crests from this flood still stand today.

By September, the Mississippi's tributaries in Kansas and Iowa were swollen to capacity. Louisiana OKs deepening Mississippi River to 50 feet 1 week 5 days 3 hours ago Saturday, August 01 2020 Aug 1, 2020 August 01, 2020 2:23 PM August 01, 2020 in News Source: Associated Press Red River Landing crested at 59.19 feet (18.04 m) on April 23.The flood between May and June was the second most severe flood in the lower Mississippi Basin since 1927. Lawmakers hear from business owners impacted by pandemic as unemployment runs low In July, severe flooding of the Mississippi River resulted from a hurricane landfall.All of the lower Mississippi River was inundated by flooding.The flood of 1825 is the last known inundation of New Orleans due to spring flooding.The flood occurred after record-setting rainfalls across the U.S. Intense spring rain storms beginning on February 19, 1882, led to a rapid rise of the Major flooding in the spring of 1891 on both the Ohio and Mississippi River, causing crevasses (bank and levee failures) in multiple locations of the lower Mississippi River valley, including Robertsonville, Mississippi; Concord, Louisiana; Carrollton (New Orleans), Louisiana; and Amesville (The 1927 flood was the greatest flood in modern history on the lower Mississippi River. Monday's rain was still causing problems across the region: Schools opened late or closed Tuesday in parts of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana because of flash flooding.

The flood began with extremely heavy rains in the central basin of the Mississippi in the summer of 1926. The longest known flood of record on the lower …