1
The plan allows 1,500,000 cfs to continue down the Mississippi toward New Orleans.
2
This flow exceeds the design capacity of Project Flood by more than 100,000 cfs.
3
The 1912 and 1913 floods had each carried 2,000,000 cfs.
4
The 1922 flood had carried not quite 1,750,000 cfs.
5
According to plan, then, no more than 1,250,000 cfs will pass the city of New Orleans.