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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1015335" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>Most Levee fuse plugs flood the spillway in an uncontrollable fashion. Sort of like the Corps did in 2011 that flooded so much of Missouri, except they dynamited Birds Point. I don't know anything about the St. Francis system, but I imagine the fuse plugs there are just lower elevation levees designed to wash out should the river exceed levels beyond that which Huxtable can handle.</p><p>Old River has a structure near by, called Low Sill, which is a concrete levee lower than the main Old River control structure and lower than the top of the main levee. Low Sill is not really a fuse plug tho--it's the first line the water flows across in flood stage. </p><p>It is also not unusual for the COE to design in a fuse plug around a control structure to protect that structure itself. They'll flood half the country before they let one of their pride and joys get washed away.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1015335, member: 18945"] Most Levee fuse plugs flood the spillway in an uncontrollable fashion. Sort of like the Corps did in 2011 that flooded so much of Missouri, except they dynamited Birds Point. I don't know anything about the St. Francis system, but I imagine the fuse plugs there are just lower elevation levees designed to wash out should the river exceed levels beyond that which Huxtable can handle. Old River has a structure near by, called Low Sill, which is a concrete levee lower than the main Old River control structure and lower than the top of the main levee. Low Sill is not really a fuse plug tho--it's the first line the water flows across in flood stage. It is also not unusual for the COE to design in a fuse plug around a control structure to protect that structure itself. They'll flood half the country before they let one of their pride and joys get washed away. [/QUOTE]
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