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Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:01 am to sharkfhin
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build a dam that connects the miss river somewhere where it would be effectively be relieving over the flood stage type area, dredge a 100 yard wide 30 ft deep riverway for 1000 miles that drains into gulf or preferably atlantic near Jacksonville perhaps...open dam water pours in....miss river is relieved forever...we spend million upon millions of dollars building bridges and interstates, this venture would be easy and effectively end flooding of miss river for many states pretty much forever
There's a plan that's been talked about that would do basically this, a dam/spillway located north of Memphis that would connect to the Tenn River, which then flows down into the Tenn-Tom waterway, which flows eventually all the way to Mobile Bay.
Not as simple or cheap as you make it out to be.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:04 am to Ponchy Tiger
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If they don't like the spillway being opened then we can just blow several holes in the levee up river on the east side and flood North Mississippi
Have you ever glanced at a topo map?
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:05 am to GREENHEAD22
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Where the hell are you getting the Atlantic?
It's to the East, over there by Georgia and North Carolina, I believe.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:20 am to wadewilson
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How about blowing a hole in the east levee a mile upriver from the LA state capital? It'll do billions of dollars of improvements in southeast LA.
There is no such levee
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:29 am to sharkfhin
The west(desert) could use the water a lot more. I’ve always thought there has to be a way they could build a pipeline to AZ, NM, etc... It would be a huge undertaking obviously, but it will relieve pressure on two situations we face.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:30 am to doubleb
We need to call in George W to blow up ORCS. He has plenty of experience in structure demolition. Helps he already hates Louisiana
Posted on 5/29/19 at 11:25 am to bayoudude
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also wouldn’t have the coastal erosion problems we do is the river was able to naturally do its thing.
The land loss down there has been astronomical over the last 15 years. Now they are making canaervon a fricking mud flat.... but Reggio is fast becoming a lake. We’ve had blinds down there that had land 10-20ft in front of them, now those same blinds are in open water on all sides with the closest bank being 15-20 yards behind what used to be walkable marsh. It’s crazy.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 11:43 am to Midtiger farm
It should be obvious that the MS Delta is low ground. It's like the poorest place outside West Virginia. Poor's don't get the high ground.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 11:46 am to HebertFest08
quote:Please elaborate. Who is “they”
The land loss down there has been astronomical over the last 15 years. Now they are making canaervon a fricking mud flat.... but Reggio is fast becoming a lake.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 11:53 am to LSUFanHouston
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They are only dredging 5 feet deeper in the mid-river channel, and only south of Laplace (and maybe even only further south than that).
I don't think it will make much of a difference.
Gotcha. I was thinking it was all the way from NO to BR.
Thanks!
Posted on 5/29/19 at 11:57 am to FelicianaTigerfan
quote:Huh?
Back when private companies were allowed to dredge the river and sell gravel they didnt have the build up. At least not at the current rate.
Who ever dredged the River for gravel? (Correct Answer: No one)
There's no commercially viable amounts of gravel at the bottom of the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge south.
Never has been in history.
The only dredging that stopped was shell dredging in the Lakes & Sounds that ceased around 1990.
That type of dredging had zero effect on channel flow.
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