spillway opened

[eastek]

How will the spillway opened up affect the training areas?

[Mark Evans]

It will shut it down. There will be no training.
Mark

[SME]

It is a sight to see if you've never been in there training & they've just opened the slats. I remember being there for a Pontchartrain HRC Hunt Test & the river had just started coming through. By the end of weekend, the blacktop was barely passable. That's when I realized how crazy in love with this game we were . . .

SME

[rboudet]

Wasnt much training going on there any way due to the high grass. I hope they have to open the whole thing and wash it out from levee to levee. Its almost like getting new training grounds after it draws down. Stuff fills in, fills up and moves some of the gators out. If anyone has the chance to go see it when it is opened, do it. It is a site to see.

However, if it is an early draw down every white trash, redneck, coonazz that can scrap together enoungh money for bait will be out there crawfishing.

[blgros1]

They are suppose to keep the locks open for at least a month, but im not sure if they are gonna open every slat. I'll try to see if i can get an exact time on when they are going to open it up, maybe for the folks that havent seen it can come take a look, its pretty neat

Wasnt much training going on there any way due to the high grass. I hope they have to open the whole thing and wash it out from levee to levee. Its almost like getting new training grounds after it draws down. Stuff fills in, fills up and moves some of the gators out. If anyone has the chance to go see it when it is opened, do it. It is a site to see.

However, if it is an early draw down every white trash, redneck, coonazz that can scrap together enoungh money for bait will be out there crawfishing.

[Karen Klotthor]

I talked to someone at the Corps office yesterday and water is just coming thru in the middle of the spillway. Pins will not be pulled until Monday. PHRC wil lbe have their Annual training / Meeting there this Saturday. We plan to meet on the Norco side by the levy were we normally have our hunt headqtrs set up. I understand that that area the grass is not too high and we should be able to get some training done. If not we need to hold out annual meeting and elections anyway.
I do understand that they plan on completely opening all pins.
Bobby you are right, it is like all new grounds when the grass starts growing again.

[eastek]

If anyone gets pictures of the spillway, post them please, I'd love to see it rolling.

Saw where they had blown a levee to in MO that flooded 130,000 acres.

Talked to a friend of mine up the river and he said they are looking at blowing another levee around Cairo, IL.

This has got to throw the agriculture a loop in that area.

[Karen Klotthor]

Better to flood acres instead of towns.
Last time they opened the spillway it did not flood all of it. About 12 yrs ago so much water came thru that the water almost topped the spillway levy. That was from the river all the way to the Lake. I understand that if they pull all the pins it will be the same way again.

[rboudet]

If anyone gets pictures of the spillway, post them please, I'd love to see it rolling.

Saw where they had blown a levee to in MO that flooded 130,000 acres.

Talked to a friend of mine up the river and he said they are looking at blowing another levee around Cairo, IL.

This has got to throw the agriculture a loop in that area.

I have pictures from 2008 when they partially opened it, I'll see if I can post them

[rboudet]

If anyone gets pictures of the spillway, post them please, I'd love to see it rolling.

Saw where they had blown a levee to in MO that flooded 130,000 acres.

Talked to a friend of mine up the river and he said they are looking at blowing another levee around Cairo, IL.

This has got to throw the agriculture a loop in that area.

http://www2.snapfish.com/snapfish/launc ... EntryIDX=1

[Karen Klotthor]

The Corp has started opening the spillway this morning. Also talked to one of the Staff with the corp and they will also open the Morgansa Spillway. A lot of water to be displaced.

[blgros1]

Yep Morganza will be opened as early as Thursday. Suppose to be 1.75 million gallons of water passing at the red river landing, the 1.5 million mark is when they open morganza. gonna get nasty in there, calling for anywhere from 12-20 feet of water in there. there are only a few camps that I know of in there that can take 12 feet of water. there are gonna be tons of animals on the levee's and on the farm land outside the levees.

The Corp has started opening the spillway this morning. Also talked to one of the Staff with the corp and they will also open the Morgansa Spillway. A lot of water to be displaced.