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Well I guess we know where you stand.
The lock and dam system of navagation is composed of something like 27 L&Ds. They are from St Louis North. Don't know or care if they hold back the Missouri or not.but since the Missouri dumps into the Miss at St Louis I would guess not. Now are you talking about that other big river that was known to be 1 mile wide and an inch deep? Now I believe that was before the Corps channeled it. And those bodies of water , are they natural lakes or just impoundments? You know for flood control. I've got to admit that I don't know much about the Missouri but doesn't the whole west have a drought problem or is it just Montana and the Dakotas? The lower Mississippi apparently doesn't need more water to run barges or the Corps would have built more L&Ds. I checked record water levels at Cape Girardo Missouri and found that in 1909, before the L&Ds the record low water level was .6 feet. So that tells me that low water levels are nothing new to the rivers and since cape Girardo is below the L&D system the Missouri river must not have had much water in it either. This is spring time. The time for floods. I checked the Missouri river levels in the Kansas city area, the only district that the Missouri runs through where I could find records and found you guys are as much as 6 feet below flood level and as I said before its the time for floods. I think your concerns are probably founded but i have to question your target. Here is where I got my information http://www2.mvr.usace.army.mil/Water...new/layout.cfm Last edited by justwannano; 05-02-2008 at 05:27 PM. |
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