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Feet per second at the latitude of the old river control structure, and that includes both the flows of the mississippi and the red river. the basin floodway is designed to carry about half of that, about 1.5 million and the morganza is a major outlet which flows from the mississippi to go into the atchafalaya basin. so from the morganza and the red river flows and at maximum design flood would be designed to carry 1.5 million cubic feet per second. >> well, tom, we are talking about the different spillways which is a way to calm the river and perhaps test the levee less, but bottom line, the ...
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