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re: Mississippi River diverging: When do we finally let it go down the Atchafalaya?
Posted on 3/7/15 at 2:30 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 3/7/15 at 2:30 pm to Jim Rockford
letting the river go, or changing the diversion percentage, would also destroy the atchafalaya basin
as in all works of man, the law of unintended consequences is immutable
now, blowing the levees south of belle chase is a different matter entirely, one that I am all in favor of
as in all works of man, the law of unintended consequences is immutable
now, blowing the levees south of belle chase is a different matter entirely, one that I am all in favor of
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Posted on 3/7/15 at 2:34 pm to JudgeHolden
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And you'd have to dredge the River four times a week to keep it open to vessel traffic.
How is this different from now?
Posted on 3/7/15 at 2:38 pm to fightin tigers
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why? Vice news is better than most other sources.
If you like your information biased as hell, its no different than MSNBC or Fox.
I will say that I am not a avid watcher but the ones I have seen that has been the case.
Posted on 3/7/15 at 2:47 pm to GREENHEAD22
Did they do a story on this issue, or was it just a random joke about a news source you don't like? I'm curious why vice was even brought up.
Posted on 3/7/15 at 2:50 pm to gaetti15
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quote: I know a good bit of the CPRA modelers in LA and it's a constant fight between what people care more about...fish, habitat, land building, etc. It's a political quaqmire
We know the same people. Your statement sums the entire problem.
Posted on 3/7/15 at 2:51 pm to CCTider
Another poster brought up something about a show they did on rising sea/glacier melt etc.
Posted on 3/7/15 at 2:52 pm to magildachunks
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magildachunks
lol@thisthread...
Posted on 3/7/15 at 2:54 pm to fightin tigers
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And you'd have to dredge the River four times a week to keep it open to vessel traffic. How is this different from now? Top
Considering its already dredged constantly below head of passes, not at all.
side note: the post sandy work in the NE has tied up all the dredges and the Usace can't even get dredgers to respond to bid openings for channel maintenance in the MR. Basically, the U.S. dredge fleet is tiny and not technologically advanced enough to keep up with maintenance much less restoration, but there are a lot of yahoos out there who think we can dig and pump our way to a restored coast.
Posted on 3/7/15 at 2:56 pm to man in the stadium
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Basically, the U.S. dredge fleet is tiny and not technologically advanced enough to keep up with maintenance much less restoration,
Sounds like we need to get in the dredging business.
Posted on 3/7/15 at 3:00 pm to fightin tigers
Same thing I was thinking.
Posted on 3/7/15 at 3:01 pm to GREENHEAD22
Hope you got good credit
Posted on 3/7/15 at 3:04 pm to jimbeam
Yea the amount of capital needed to start that up has to be large.
Posted on 3/7/15 at 3:12 pm to man in the stadium
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man in the stadium
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We know the same people
your username makes sense now
Posted on 3/7/15 at 3:30 pm to BottomlandBrew
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We will not see the river intentionally diverted in our lifetimes.
It's being intentionally diverted right now.
Posted on 3/7/15 at 3:58 pm to magildachunks
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only way to really save the coast from shrinking is to let the river do what it wants, as nature intended.
This won't happen just because the flow has shifted to where it naturally wants to be. The Atchafalya is currently building marsh in two places, the main delta and the Wax Delta diversion off of it. The Mississippi also builds wetland on its current state. Seasonal flooding (sheet flow in this case) would be needed to have effects away from the deltas. So...they need to let the rivers flood annually.
Not to mention, less sediment is making it down stream due to dams upstream on Mississippi river tributaries. So...let's blow those all up too.
Posted on 3/7/15 at 4:18 pm to magildachunks
Jumping in A lil late
Baton Rouge is a pretty big port also
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New Orleans, which the port is "too big to fail"
Baton Rouge is a pretty big port also
Posted on 3/7/15 at 4:28 pm to crewdepoo
Can we get the nuclear reactor at Waterford to cold shutdown before we just let the river do what it wants? That plant doesn't have cooling towers and uses the Mississippi River to cool the core.
No meltdowns, kthanx?
No meltdowns, kthanx?
This post was edited on 3/7/15 at 4:33 pm
Posted on 3/7/15 at 4:29 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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The big problem is that only about 1/3 of the current water volume would be going down the current channel, and that would cause saltwater to backflow into the NOLA metro area and ruin the supply of drinking water.
Nothing that a strong protective Dyke couldn't solve.
Posted on 3/7/15 at 4:51 pm to TigerstuckinMS
It will still use the river, just possibly a river with far higher salt content
Posted on 3/7/15 at 4:52 pm to NYNolaguy1
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It will still use the river, just possibly a river with far higher salt content
Hmm. I guess the river bed would be below sea level there, wouldn't it.
In that case, frick it. Open the control structure!
This post was edited on 3/7/15 at 4:56 pm
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