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Measuring discharge during May 2011 Memphis, Tennessee flood

Outflow #1 of Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway. The Levee was detonated May 5, 2011 to allow water to return to the Mississippi River. Photo taken from inside floodway. Flow is coming into the floodway at a rate of 15,000 cubic feet per second (cfs).

Outflow #1 of Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway. The Levee was detonated May 5, 2011 to allow water to return to the Mississippi River. Photo taken from inside floodway. Flow is coming into the floodway at a rate of 15,000 cubic feet per second (cfs).

Hydrologic Technicians Donnie Keeling (Murray, KY) and Trent Legg (Mt. Vernon, IL) clean debris from road bridge in the lower end of the New Madrid Floodway so a boat can be launched to measure outflow of the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway.

Hydrologic Technicians Donnie Keeling (Murray, KY) and Trent Legg (Mt. Vernon, IL) clean debris from road bridge in the lower end of the New Madrid Floodway so a boat can be launched to measure outflow of the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway.

Outflow #1 of Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway. The Levee was detonated May 5, 2011 to allow water to return to the Mississippi River. Photo taken from inside floodway. Flow is coming into the floodway at a rate of 15,000 cubic feet per second (cfs).

Outflow #1 of Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway. The Levee was detonated May 5, 2011 to allow water to return to the Mississippi River. Photo taken from inside floodway. Flow is coming into the floodway at a rate of 15,000 cubic feet per second (cfs).

Outflow #1 of Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway. The Levee was detonated May 5, 2011 to allow water to return to the Mississippi River. Photo taken from inside floodway. Flow is coming into the floodway at a rate of 15,000 cubic feet per second (cfs).

Outflow #1 of Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway. The Levee was detonated May 5, 2011 to allow water to return to the Mississippi River. Photo taken from inside floodway. Flow is coming into the floodway at a rate of 15,000 cubic feet per second (cfs).

Rising waters  near Morganza, LA before the opening of the Morganza Spillway.

USGS Louisiana Water Science Center (LA WSC) crew on a flooded road

This image displays a screen capture of the main ModelMuse form with a MODFLOW-LGR model.

Flooding on the White River required closing of Interstate 40 near DeValls Bluff, Arkansas. USGS is monitoring the floodwaters by installing temporary streamgages.

USGS boat crew prepares for a discharge measurement during May 2011 Memphis, Tennessee flooding

Flood of May 3, 2011, at USGS streamflow-gaging station 07069000, Black River at Pocahontas, Arkansas. Photograph by D.M. Wagner, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center.

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Measuring discharge below the New Madrid Floodway breach

Flood of May 3, 2011, at USGS streamflow-gaging station 07069000, Black River at Pocahontas, Arkansas. Photograph by D.M. Wagner, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center.

USGS Missouri Water Science Center Deputy Director near inflow/outflow of the levee breach near New Madrid, MO. USGS scientists are measuring the amount of water spilling into the New Madrid floodway as a result of the recent intentional breaching of the Birds Point Levee in Missouri in support of the Corps of Engineers operation.

USGS National Flood Specialist answers questions for CNN at the Birds Point-NewMadrid Floodway. USGS scientists are measuring the amount of water spilling into the New Madrid floodway as a result of the recent intentional breaching of the Birds Point Levee in Missouri in support of the Corps of Engineers operation.

USGS Hydrographer measures streamflow at Birds Point-New Madrid floodway using a tethered acoustic Doppler current profiling from a moving boat. USGS scientists are measuring the amount of water spilling into the New Madrid floodway as a result of the recent intentional breaching of the Birds Point Levee in Missouri in support of the Corps of Engineers operation.

USGS Arkansas Water Science Cneter technicians measuring the flow across a US Highway being passed by a fan boat.