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Everyone knows tallahatchie hunting is the best because of the sandy grit that runs off the hills. Well proven fact that was established here by the head beaver

Why are there two watercontrol structures on the sunflower/yahoo?

Blackduck wrote:Everyone knows tallahatchie hunting is the best because of the sandy grit that runs off the hills. Well proven fact that was established here by the head beaver

Why are there two watercontrol structures on the sunflower/yahoo?

To cut off backwater from the Mississippi River during large mainline Ms storm events.

Double R 2 wrote:

novacaine wrote: Or you could have called me and i would have sent you a map and saved you some gas!

post it up here so we can all see it

This map was helpful to me.

http://www.mvk.usace.army.mil/offices/p ... _13_10.pdf

novacaine wrote:

Blackduck wrote:Everyone knows tallahatchie hunting is the best because of the sandy grit that runs off the hills. Well proven fact that was established here by the head beaver

Why are there two watercontrol structures on the sunflower/yahoo?

To cut off backwater from the Mississippi River during large mainline Ms storm events.

But why two. I know that is what they do but why does it help to have two? Wouldn't steele bayou alone keep water out of the Sunflower and keep the Delta from being back flooded. I guess during normal or low levels in the Mississippi, when both gates are open, the two gates may help drain the delta in case of a large rain event.

Also if Steele bayou is closed, where is the water coming from that is filling Eagle Lake through Muddy? Rain water run off coming down Steel bayou and the Sunflower? It sure isn't the rising river that is forcing water it Eagle lake.

[quote="Blackduck]Also if Steele bayou is closed, where is the water coming from that is filling Eagle Lake through Muddy? Rain water run off coming down Steel bayou and the Sunflower? It sure isn't the rising river that is forcing water it Eagle lake.[/quote]


Correct.

Blackduck wrote:

Why are there two watercontrol structures on the sunflower/yahoo?

not being a smartone but, i hope you meant YaZoo

Bump for re-educational purposes if so interested.

Good stuff. I knew a big part of that but a lot I did not know. The same way you can spit in Moon lake and it end up in the yazoo is the same way you can tag a spoonbill in Moon lake and it get caught in St Louis

tombstone wrote:Good stuff. I knew a big part of that but a lot I did not know. The same way you can spit in Moon lake and it end up in the yazoo is the same way you can tag a spoonbill in Moon lake and it get caught in St Louis

One was caught almost to Oklahoma

That's good info for sure. Also, in 2011 Moon Lake was burning the candle at both ends when all that water was backing up from birdie and up through the pass, and all the seep water from tunica county was coming down Phillips bayou and coming in the other end. The amount of seepage under the levee in 2011 was amazing to me.

I wish we could stickie this thread.

Wingman wrote:

tombstone wrote:Good stuff. I knew a big part of that but a lot I did not know. The same way you can spit in Moon lake and it end up in the yazoo is the same way you can tag a spoonbill in Moon lake and it get caught in St Louis

One was caught almost to Oklahoma

No kidding. That is insane.
The folks that say there are no way the flying carp can get into Moon Lake are very uninformed.

Damn Corps of Engineers. Flood control is what they call it but back flooding is almost as bad. Let's undo nature. Think the Kissimmee River "straightening" project that we(tax payers) spent untold millions to put the "curves" back in down Florida way. Can not please everyone and people choose to live in low lying areas. Remember what was said after Katrina about 'Nawlins?