Re: When Life Gives You Oil, Make Biodiesel?
Posted by jack ruby on 6/13/2010, 5:38 pm
The present course of the Miss is already an artificial contrivance of humanity. The Old River Control Structure which is upriver from Baton Rouge keeps the Mississippi on its present course past Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Without this structure the Miss would already have changed course sending the bulk of its water (and silt for marsh building) down through the Atchafalaya Basin and past Morgan City and empty into the Gulf there. If effect the Miss and the Atchafalaya would become one river. This very nearly happened during the Great Flood of 1973 when the high waters of the Miss came very near to buckling and undermining the Control Structure which would have resulted in the short flooding and destruction of Morgan City and other small communities and the drying up of Baton Rouge and New Orleans as major ports. Could the course of the Miss be safely altered to meet the needs of the marsh (silt deposits), I don't know. Sometimes I think we've already done enough.
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