I recently received these three items from USACE HQ.
1) Lower Mississippi River crest map.
Download USACE_lowermiss_crest_map
2) Four Power Point slides showing the effects/benefits of the Morganza Floodway opening.
Download Morganzabenefit
3) And finally, this gem from 1927: the transmission to Congress by President Calvin Coolidge via Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis of a report from Major General Edgar Jadwin, Chief of Engineers, describing the plan for flood control on the Mississippi River.
Download Flood_control_in Mississippi_River_Dec_8_1927
Check out these items (sent by friend Michael Dale) from, of all places, the Ely Times (NV) and also a cartoon by Robert Ariail.
The 1927 floods altered the USA in anumber of fascinating ways,and I'm not just talking about the flood damage. John M. Barry's Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America is the best book on the subject.
Here are some relevant WaterWired posts on the Mississippi River: 12 June 2007;: 13 June 2007; 23 June 2008; and 24 March 2011. See also my 15 May 2011 post.
Enjoy!
"The plan transmitted herewith is comprehensive and appeals to me as being adequate in its engineering. I concur in general in the conclusions and recommendations reached in the report, and suggest that appropriate legislation be enacted putting them into effect."-- President Calvin Coolidge, 8 December 1927
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