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Mississippi River Lost 47% Of Its Water In Three Days - November 3rd, 2024
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:08 pm
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:08 pm
SIAP - But found this interesting and wondering how well known or if it's been previously discussed?
From the description:
not from drought, but from what engineers call "systemic hydraulic failure." Water entering at Cairo, Illinois simply wasn't arriving 400 miles downstream, vanishing at a rate that exceeds the entire annual flow of the Colorado River. What investigators discovered beneath the riverbed reveals how a century of flood control projects accidentally transformed America's greatest river into a massive drain that's now collapsing under its own engineering.
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Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:10 pm to awestruck
I understand why it was done and all the good it did and all that good stuff, but levees and dams really fricked some shite up from a nature/land perspective.
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:11 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Sort of... the best laid plans of mice and men.
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:12 pm to awestruck
Well, what did they discover?
Don't pull this clickbait shite
Don't pull this clickbait shite
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:21 pm to fr33manator
I second this motion!
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:23 pm to fr33manator
quote:
Well, what did they discover?
You won't believe number 6!
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:24 pm to fr33manator
Basically that the river morphology, its underlying structure, has been so altered that water no longer flows only on top of the river bed. Flow can now go in lateral directions as well as through its new porous subsurface, since it's now a non-hardened river bed.
This ultimately has forced barge companies into bankruptcy, framers to absorb increased transportation cost, river levels to plummet, and upstream states to curtail parts of their water management strategies... and still no answer.
This ultimately has forced barge companies into bankruptcy, framers to absorb increased transportation cost, river levels to plummet, and upstream states to curtail parts of their water management strategies... and still no answer.
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:25 pm to awestruck
quote:The term is “dehydration”.
Mississippi River Lost 47% Of Its Water In Three Days - November 3rd, 2024
Duh.
This post was edited on 1/26/26 at 7:27 pm
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:28 pm to awestruck
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d. Flow can now go in lateral directions as well as through its new porous subsurface, since it's now a non-hardened river bed.
So it’s soaking into the ground beneath the river? And diverting east and west instead of simply flowing north to south?
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:29 pm to tigerinthebueche
And the more water that's released from upstream the greater the rate of seepage.
eta: Because natural river beds are self hardening through deposition, erosion, substrate movement, resulting in equilibrium over time.
eta: Because natural river beds are self hardening through deposition, erosion, substrate movement, resulting in equilibrium over time.
This post was edited on 1/26/26 at 7:33 pm
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:33 pm to awestruck
Underrated post and reminded of the rash of mysterious watershed /lake water vanishings across the country that have never satisfactorily explained.
Recall the dramatically reduced levels of Lake Mead / Powell out west as well?
What was it really about? Who or what siphoned all that water? To where?
Recall the dramatically reduced levels of Lake Mead / Powell out west as well?
What was it really about? Who or what siphoned all that water? To where?
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:34 pm to awestruck
Well, the preacher man did say it's the end of time..
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:35 pm to awestruck
Let the Mississippi River wash Cairo into the Gulf of America. It would make the world a better place. I was born there so I can say that.
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:42 pm to Btrtigerfan
quote:6: That it sucked for ducks, geese, and hunters.
You won't believe number 6!
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:45 pm to Missouri Waltz
In the 1950's the corp ran a nation wide control program reducing the topsoil runoff that was very successful. to the extent that measured suspended soil content in the river dropped by half at the monitoring station where the morganza lock are located. that cut the soil replenishment on the Louisiana coast by half . the records are available on line if you want to look at daily numbers
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:54 pm to awestruck
What took hundreds of years to develop has an adverse effect over the course of three days and then goes back to normal? Sounds like a bunch of bullshite to me….
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:59 pm to awestruck
There's a YouTube video on it. It has to be true.
Posted on 1/26/26 at 8:02 pm to Trevaylin
Wouldn't you want top soil to stay where it is useful, instead of just some marsh land? I mean if you had to choose between the two.
Posted on 1/26/26 at 8:06 pm to SEC. 593
quote:
Wouldn't you want top soil to stay where it is useful, instead of just some marsh land?
Some, but not all.
Posted on 1/26/26 at 8:13 pm to awestruck
I watched this video a few weeks ago.
I am very skeptical. The premise is that the river is leaking water into underground resevoirs and refilling them instead of flowing down the river.
While it is plauseable, especially if you think about how much water has been pumped out of wells across the valley for farming or drinking instead of using surface water.
But I doubt that enough water is leaving the channel to completely empty it.
I am very skeptical. The premise is that the river is leaking water into underground resevoirs and refilling them instead of flowing down the river.
While it is plauseable, especially if you think about how much water has been pumped out of wells across the valley for farming or drinking instead of using surface water.
But I doubt that enough water is leaving the channel to completely empty it.
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