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Fifth District prepares for Phase 1 flood fight
The Fifth District Levee Board will go into a Phase 1 flood fight at 5 a.m. Thursday.
Levee board President Reynold Minsky said the Mississippi River is expected to reach 53 feet at Vidalia by May 24. Flood stage is 48 feet.
"That's subject to change," said Minsky. "What everything depends on is not what happens here but what happens to the north. They are expecting some tremendously heavy rains in the Ohio Valley in the next five days."
Minsky said a Phase 1 flood fight means that "all levee gates must be opened" until further notice as the Corps of Engineers and Levee District employees patrol levees during the regular work day looking for sand boils and seepage.
Minsky advised landowners to monitor their livestock along the levees to insure they don't wander through the open gates.
"We're not going to round up cows," he said.
The Fifth Louisiana Levee District includes the parishes of Concordia, Tensas, Madison and East Carroll. The district oversees 213.8 miles of main line Mississippi River levees, 93.1 miles of Red River Backwater Levee in Concordia as well as maintain 20 control structures. |
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