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<blockquote data-quote="jedstivers" data-source="post: 1015182" data-attributes="member: 8873"><p>The pumps turn on when the gauge on the riverside (Mississippi river) hits a certain height. It keeps the Mississippi from backing up the St. Francis basin and also takes water out of that basin to protect land and towns all the way to the MO boot heal. </p><p>It is showing problems though, so much land has been graded and so many ditches dug the water gets here so much faster than when it was designed it can't protect the land right at it. </p><p>Another thing is after the flood of '11 the Mississippi finally fell so fast everything on the unprotected side was gone and the protected side had accumulated so much rain and seep water that it could flow through the structure fast enough and it took forever for that side to go down.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jedstivers, post: 1015182, member: 8873"] The pumps turn on when the gauge on the riverside (Mississippi river) hits a certain height. It keeps the Mississippi from backing up the St. Francis basin and also takes water out of that basin to protect land and towns all the way to the MO boot heal. It is showing problems though, so much land has been graded and so many ditches dug the water gets here so much faster than when it was designed it can't protect the land right at it. Another thing is after the flood of '11 the Mississippi finally fell so fast everything on the unprotected side was gone and the protected side had accumulated so much rain and seep water that it could flow through the structure fast enough and it took forever for that side to go down. [/QUOTE]
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