{"id":87349,"date":"2019-05-24T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=87349"},"modified":"2019-05-24T10:17:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T14:17:36","slug":"the-armys-corps-of-engineers-your-tax-dollars-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87349","title":{"rendered":"The Army&#8217;s Corps of Engineers &#8211; Your Tax Dollars At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/42\/BonnetCarreOpeningDay.jpg\/1024px-BonnetCarreOpeningDay.jpg\" alt=\"Bonnet Carre Spillway on opening day 2011.\" width=\"481\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo: Army Corps of Engineers<\/p>\n<p>With all the rain the Midwest and north\/south central states have been getting, the Army&#8217;s Corps of Engineers has been busy managing things like flood levels on the south end of Ole Miss. It&#8217;s still raining, with the flow coming up out of Texas and more from the eastern side of the Rockies. If you remember the disastrous dam break and\u00a0 flooding on the Niobrara River In Nebraska a few weeks ago, all that water volume went right into Ole Man River.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent opening of the Bonne Carre spillway was early in May this year, after a February opening to ease the water volume over to Lake Ponchatrain.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theadvocate.com\/new_orleans\/news\/article_59a988de-7279-11e9-9497-8b44741b6811.html\">https:\/\/www.theadvocate.com\/new_orleans\/news\/article_59a988de-7279-11e9-9497-8b44741b6811.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The attached article is a good rendering of how they&#8217;re on the job with this, and how the impact is assessed on things that we take for granted, such as wetlands and shrimp beds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mvn.usace.army.mil\/Missions\/Mississippi-River-Flood-Control\/Bonnet-Carre-Spillway-Overview\/Spillway-Operation-Information\/\">https:\/\/www.mvn.usace.army.mil\/Missions\/Mississippi-River-Flood-Control\/Bonnet-Carre-Spillway-Overview\/Spillway-Operation-Information\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The flooding is not over yet. The popular fishing pond that I go to for photographing ducks and geese is full now, and the overflow drain redirecting water into Lake Michigan is swamped. But the rainbows are biting and people are enjoying that hobby again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70138\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70138\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mergansers-at-IBSP-north-4-20-2013-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mergansers-at-IBSP-north-4-20-2013-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mergansers-at-IBSP-north-4-20-2013-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mergansers-at-IBSP-north-4-20-2013-500x313.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Ex-PH2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Army Corps of Engineers With all the rain the Midwest and north\/south central states have &hellip; <a title=\"The Army&#8217;s Corps of Engineers &#8211; Your Tax Dollars At Work\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87349\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Army&#8217;s Corps of Engineers &#8211; Your Tax Dollars At Work<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87354,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87349\/revisions\/87354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}