The flow past New Orleans peaked at 1.257 million ft?/ s ( 35, 594.28 m?/ s ) on April 15; the project design flood flow is 1.25 million ft?/ s with the balance flowing through the Bonnet Carre Spillway.
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A diagram that depicts river flows flow through the Morganza Spillway to the Red and Atchafalaya Rivers associated with a project design flood, which is the hypothetical " maximum probable " flood of the Mississippi River, as estimated by the Corps of Engineers.
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See, for example, Project design flood : the worst-case scenario for flooding the Lower Mississippi calls for almost ten times as much water coming in from the Ohio than from the Upper Mississippi and Missouri Rivers combined .-- talk ) 03 : 03, 6 November 2013 ( UTC)
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Along with Maruyama Dam ( on the Kisogawa ) and a cluster of other multi-purpose dams on the Kisogawa river system, the standardized design flood discharge level at Mount Inuyama was lowered from 16, 000 tons per second by 3, 500 tons to 12, 500 tons per second.
