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current06:07, 10 March 2018Thumbnail for version as of 06:07, 10 March 2018720 × 480 (210 KB)Matthiasb{{Information |description ={{en|1=In late February 2018, a series of rainstorms pounded the central United States, causing damaging flooding along the Ohio River and parts of the Mississippi. Weeks after the storms, the effects were still being felt as far away as Louisiana. That pulse of flood water traveled down the Mississippi River and, by early March, reached the Gulf of Mexico. On March 8, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened the Bonnet Carré Spillway, which diverts excess water from the Mississippi River and relieves pressure on levees downriver in New Orleans. It marks the 12th time that the spillway has been opened since the structure was completed in the early 1930s. “This was a big event, but on the scale of big events, it’s a small one,” said Alex Kolker, an associate professor with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. Still, the flood was substantial enough to color coastal waters brown with suspended sediments. On March 4, 2018, the Moderate Resolution...

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