File:May 2011 Morganza Spillway Opens in Louisiana.jpg
Summary
Natural-colour image of the Morganza Floodway. The image was acquired at 11:20 a.m. Central Daylight Time, one day after the spillway was partially opened. The <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/White" class="mw-redirect" title="White">white</a> pixels near the spillway are whitewater churned up by the flow through the gates. Square and quadrilateral shapes on the landscape show areas that were cleared for farming or perhaps shaped for flood control earthworks. <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Water" title="Water">Water</a> ranges in colors of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Olive" title="Olive">olive</a>, tan, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Black" class="mw-redirect" title="Black">black</a>, and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gray" class="mw-redirect" title="Gray">gray</a>, reflecting the different loads of muddy sediment churned up from the bottom; darker areas might also reflect deeper water. Past the spillway, water is more readily apparent along the levee on the south and east side of the floodway, suggesting that there are fewer trees and perhaps lower elevations in those areas.
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| current | 19:02, 16 January 2017 | | 2,372 × 6,927 (2.63 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | Natural-colour image of the Morganza Floodway. The image was acquired at 11:20 a.m. Central Daylight Time, one day after the spillway was partially opened. The <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/White" class="mw-redirect" title="White">white</a> pixels near the spillway are whitewater churned up by the flow through the gates. Square and quadrilateral shapes on the landscape show areas that were cleared for farming or perhaps shaped for flood control earthworks. <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Water" title="Water">Water</a> ranges in colors of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Olive" title="Olive">olive</a>, tan, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Black" class="mw-redirect" title="Black">black</a>, and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gray" class="mw-redirect" title="Gray">gray</a>, reflecting the different loads of muddy sediment churned up from the bottom; darker areas might also reflect deeper water. Past the spillway, water is more readily apparent along the levee on the south and east side of the floodway, suggesting that there are fewer trees and perhaps lower elevations in those areas. |
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