{"id":4916,"date":"2011-06-02T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T23:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2011-06-02T10:18:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T15:18:48","slug":"morganza-floodway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/06\/morganza-floodway\/","title":{"rendered":"morganza floodway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4919\" title=\"morganza_1\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/morganza_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/morganza_1.jpg 525w, http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/morganza_1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[1. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morganza_Spillway\">Morganza Spillway<\/a>, the 3,900-foot control structure that sits at the north end of the Morganza Floodway, in drier times.\u00a0 It &#8220;consists of a concrete weir, two sluice gates, seventeen scour indicators, and 125 gated openings&#8221;.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4920\" title=\"morganza_2\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/morganza_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/morganza_2.jpg 525w, http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/morganza_2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[2. A levee on the western side of the Morganza Floodway, near Krotz Springs.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4922\" title=\"morganza_4\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/morganza_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/morganza_4.jpg 525w, http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/morganza_4-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[3. The southern terminus of the Morganza floodway, somewhere around 10 miles south of Krotz Springs.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"morganza_3\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/morganza_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[4. The levee on the eastern side continues far south of the western levee, as the Morganza Floodway joins the West Atchafalaya Floodway to become the Lower Atchafalaya Basin Floodway.\u00a0 When floodwaters come this far south on the Morganza Floodway, they stop moving solely southward, and begin to spread both south towards the Atchafalaya Delta as well as back north up the route of the West Atchafalaya Floodway, as detailed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/teamneworleans\/5717316240\/in\/set-72157626528621473\/\">this predictive map<\/a> from the Army Corps of Engineers.\u00a0 Eventually, as they exit the lower floodway, they make their way around the pictured eastern levee and turn north a second time, so that the levee is eventually a thin, isolated dry strip.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4923\" title=\"morganza_map\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/morganza_map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"1204\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[Satellite view of the Atchafalaya Basin, including all three floodways.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[1. The Morganza Spillway, the 3,900-foot control structure that sits at the north end of the Morganza Floodway, in drier times.\u00a0 It &#8220;consists of a concrete weir, two sluice gates, seventeen scour indicators, and 125 gated openings&#8221;.] [2. A levee on the western side of the Morganza Floodway, near Krotz Springs.] [3. The southern terminus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[594],"tags":[604,608,610,609,559,607],"class_list":["post-4916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floods","tag-604","tag-608","tag-aerial-tour","tag-atchafalaya","tag-infrastructural-vernacular","tag-morganza-floodway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4916"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4958,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions\/4958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}