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Filmed on a Canon 60D with a Sigma 28mm Prime lens @24p. It was very sunny that day so I had to set aperture pretty low. Color corrected with Premiere Pro CS5.

Facts about the Arch:

The Gateway Arch is the tallest national monument in the United States at 630 feet.

Construction began February 12, 1963, and the last section of the Arch was put into place on October 28, 1965.

The Arch weighs 17,246 tons. Nine hundred tons of stainless steel was used to build the Arch, more than any other project in history.

The Arch was built at a cost of $13 million.

Visit http://www.stlouisarch.com/ for tour information.

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By opening its floodgates engineers are able to control the flow of the floodwaters, diverting them around Baton Rouge into the Atchafalaya river basin, a low-lying area of central Louisiana.
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Morganza Spillway

* Built in 1954 to relieve flood pressure on Mississippi River
* Last opened in 1973
* 20 miles (32.2km) long
* 125 gates release up to 600,000 cubic feet/sec (17,000 cubic metres/sec)

Water will flow south, flooding homes and farms in the state’s Cajun country under an expected 10-20ft of water.

Over several days, the water should run south to Morgan City – where workers are rushing to reinforces levees – and then into the Gulf of Mexico.

Corps spokesman Col Ed Fleming said: “It’s a historic day, not only for the entire Mississippi River but for the state of Louisiana”.

“Today’s the first day in the history of our nation that we have had three floodways open.”

Col Fleming said the opening would be slow to “make sure folks have the understanding that water is coming their way and they evacuate according to their local procedures”.

Wildlife also needed time to get to higher ground. Opening all 125 gates on the spillway would release 600,000 cubic ft of water every second.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morganza_Spillway

The Morganza Spillway is a flood-control structure in Louisiana between the Mississippi River and the Morganza Floodway, which leads to the Atchafalaya Basin and the Atchafalaya River in south-central Louisiana. The structure, located along the western bank of the Mississippi River at river mile 280, about three miles northwest of Morganza and 151 river miles upstream from Norco in Pointe Coupee Parish, is operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Its purpose is to divert water from the Mississippi River during major flood events by flooding the Atchafalaya River and the Atchafalaya Basin (Atchafalaya Swamp). The spillway and adjacent levees also help prevent the Mississippi from changing its present course through the major port cities of Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana, to a course directly down the Atchafalaya to the Gulf of Mexico. The Morganza spillway has been opened only twice, in 1973 and 2011. The spillway’s thousands of acres of forest and farmland are home to the Louisiana black bear (Ursus americanus luteolus), which has been on the United States Fish and Wildlife Service threatened list since 1992.

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States, in large part due to the Mississippi River swelling to 80 miles wide in spots. To provide protection against river flood and prevent a repeat of the Great Flood of 1927, Congress passed the Flood Control Act of 1928 to authorize the United States Army Corps of Engineers to build the Bonnet Carre Spillway (located 33 miles above New Orleans and completed in 1931), the Birds Point floodway in Missouri, and the the Morganza Floodway as part of the 1928 Mississippi River and Tributaries Project. The Morganza control structure portion of the project was completed in 1954 and subsequently became incorporated into the Mississippi River Commission’s 1956 Project Design Flood, which added the Old River Control Structure in 1963 to the protections used to prevent Mississippi River flood. The Flood Control Act of 1965 provided further regulation over the Morganza Spillway’s role in Mississippi River flood prevention. A concrete pit called a stilling basin was added at the Morganza Spillway in 1977 “to provide erosion protection after the velocity of water pouring through the open bays during a 1973 flood caused severe scouring, or gouging out, of the land behind the bays.”

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