302:), Louisiana. The most devastating of these levee failures was the one located on Ames Farm in Amesville, near present-day Barataria Blvd. Caused by a farmer that dug a "rice flume" to water crops, the breach started on March 16, 1891 and rapidly opened over the course of several days and weeks, expanding to approximately 1,000 feet in width accompanied by a river stage of 14.4 feet. At its peak, the crevasse was estimated to flow approximately 100,000 cubic feet per second. The inundation of land stretched across several Louisiana Parishes, causing floodwater to flow directly towards neighboring Gretna and
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area totaled around 30,000 square miles (80,000 km) and was the worst since the Great
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Morganza Spillway was opened: from April 19 through June 13.
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Mississippi River adjacent to the floodway. For the second time in 38 years, the
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1050:"75th Anniversary of the Great Flood of 1927"
859:The Associated Programme on flood Management.
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1174:"Obama Signs Tennessee Disaster Declaration"
1147:National Weather Service (12 October 2011).
437:The Ohio River flood of $ 500 million. The
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1127:"High Water: Building A Global Flood Atlas"
1009:Report of the Mississippi River Commission
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1076:"Mississippi Floods – Archive Collection"
931:Jackson County 175th Anniversary Timeline
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1249:Hollingsworth, Jim Salter and Heather.
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754:Mississippi River Floods of 2019
283:vetoed the Act on August 1, 1882
713:Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway
633:Great Mississippi Flood of 2011
563:Lower Mississippi Flood of 1983
529:Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
439:Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway
339:Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
333:Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
204:also reported that breaches at
182:Great Mississippi Flood of 1874
33:Lower Mississippi River levees.
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834:"1927 Mississippi River flood"
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174:Map of areas affected by the
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986:"On This Day: May 13, 1882"
984:Kennedy, Robert C. (2001).
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861:Retrieved on 2006-11-30.
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404:Greenville, Mississippi
349:Arkansas City, Arkansas
176:Great Overflow of 1874.
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1024:"The Ames Crevasse"
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133:Great Flood of 1851
109:Great Flood of 1844
103:Great Flood of 1844
45:Flood of March 1543
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1028:The Times Picayune
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