WATER AND ROAD WORK

The Rocks---4-20-2008

Lake Mary Pictures 4-20-2008

Our pictures from Thursday, April 17.

More pictures from April 17.

These pictures should read 56.4' Natchez

These are pictures from Sunday, April 13 at "The Rocks".

Check out Missy's album of Lake Mary pictures. They're great!

http://picasaweb.google.com/nol1mah/LakeMary41308

Pictures taken on Friday, April 11, 2008. River gage at Natchez read 55 feet and Red River was 58.4 feet.

(Click on photos to enlarge, then "back" to return to photo gallery.)

 

Mississippi River Crests Listed Since 1927 at Natchez-Vidalia

In the past 70 years there is a huge difference between the record flood of 1937 at Natchez and the high water crest recorded at this station in 1934, a difference of 38 feet.

According the U.S. Corps of Engineers' records the highest recorded level on the Mississippi River at Natchez occurred in 1937, when the river crested at 58.04 feet. Just three years earlier the lowest "high water mark" was recorded in 1934 at just 20.7 feet.

Although the Corps records reflect that the highest level reached on the Natchez gauge came in 1937, probably the greatest flood of this century predated that by ten years, when the Natchez gauge reached only 56.7 feet. That was the year, however, when many levee breaks took place in both Mississippi and Louisiana, thus spreading out the flood waters in the lower Mississippi River basin so that the Natchez gauge did not climb as high as it did just ten years later when the flood, waters were confined between the levees.

At a written request of this newspaper, the Department of the Amy, Vicksburg District, Corps of Engineers this week provided a complete listing of the high water marks on the Mississippi River at Natchez since the flood of 1927. Listed below in chronological order by date, year and level, are the Mississippi River crests at the Natchez stage:

May 4, 1927  56.7 April 25, 1965  44.1

July 18, 1928

48.5 May 17, 1966 42.4
June 5, 1929 54.5 June 3, 1967 40.0

February 4, 1930

44.3 June 15, 1968 41.8

December 31, 1931

35.9 February 22, 1969 43.8

March 1, 1932

52.5 May 18, 1970 45.8
June 10, 1933 47.0 March 15, 1971  42.3
December 11, 1934  20.7 January 12, 1972 43.4
April  21, 1935 50.4 May 14, 1973 56.7
May 1, 1936 46.1 February 10, 1974 50.9

February 25, 1937

58.0 April 13, 1975 54.0
April  27,1938 46.9 March 16, 1976 39.2
May 15, 1939 49.2 April 22, 1977 41.6
May 17, 1940 39.9 April 11, 1978 45.6
May 2, 1941  33.8 April 23, 1979 54.6
April 30, 1942 41.6 April 14, 1980 48.1
June 17, 1943 49.6 June 16, 1981 40.0
May 17, 1944  49.6 December 21, 1982 47.0
April 25, 1945 55.2 May 31, 1983 55.7
January 27, 1946 45.6 May 26, 1984 52.0
May 7, 1947 43.3 March 19, 1985 49.2
May 15, 1948 45.5 October 20, 1986  41. 7
April 10, 1949 47.6 March 14, 1987 44.1
April 3, 1950 53.3 January 7, 1988 43.8
July 30, 1951  42.6 March 9, 1989 48.0
April 15, 1952 44.5 June 10, 1990 49.9
May 27, 1953  40.9 January 20, 1991 51.5
May 10, 1954  27.8 Dec. 31, 1992 41.8
April 17, 1955 43.5 May 21, 1993 49.7
March 5, 1956 39.0 May 7, 1994  52.4

July 10, 1957

46.2 June 14, 1995 53.1

May 25, 1958

44.7 June 3, 1996 49.5
March 4, 1959 35.9 March 27, 1997 56.3
April 27, 1960 40.0 May 16, 1998 50.0
June 3, 1961 50.2 Feb. 14, 1999 49.4
April 20, 1962  47.6 July 6, 2000 38.0
April 9, 1963 42.9 March 8, 2001 47.9
May 17, 1964 44.0 June 3, 2002 51.2*

A more complete table on opening page.

The river stages can be found at the sites below.

The National Weather Service

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/ORN/RVASIL

The Corps of Engineers in Vicksburg

http://www.mvk.usace.army.mil/offices/ed/edh/docs/bullet.txt

This Corp of Engineers site will also give historical data about previous floods.

http://www.mvk.usace.army.mil/offices/ed/edh/watercontrol.htm