Introduction
Past Floods in the
Lower Mississippi Valley
The Great Flood of 1927
The MR&T Project
Spillway Site Selection
Design Advances
Spillway Operation
Spillway Operational Effects
Natural Resource Values
Environmental Values
Cultural Resource Values
Recreational Values
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The MR&T Project
To prevent a recurrence of the 1927 flood, Congress authorized the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project (MR&T) in the Flood Control Act of 1928. The "levees only" policy of the past was discarded and the Corps of Engineers adopted a new approach based on improved levees plus floodways, including a spill way to divert water into Lake Pontchartrain above New Orleans.
| Dynamiting the Caernarvon levee below New Orleans to save the city from the Flood of 1927. |
Contact
Kathy Gibbs, CEMVN-PA
Chief, Public Affairs Office
New Orleans, LA
504-862-2201
Kathy.Gibbs@usace.army.mil
Updated May 18, 2005
