>> that's the mississippi river tributaries project we're working on right now. next slide -- on this slide here, this is what guys thought about 30 years ago and what we've been constructing for the last -- since 1928, to put a system together where we meet certain gauges an certain requirements where we take water off of the main stem of the mississippi and we move them around to different areas and stage that water so we can continue to protect lives as we move down river. you know we opened up the flood way at bird's point new madrid, we opened that up last week. we also opened up the bonnet carre spillway, there's discussions about opening up morganza. i'll get to that in just a moment. the gauges are still at historic highs. i was at cairo, illinois, two days ago. while folks are coming back to that city even after it was
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