re: Mississippi sues federal government over river flooding, claims ORCS is to blame

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shite talking

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I saw a similar situation in Chicago when a couple of homeless chaps got into an argument over the location of their spots on the sidewalk.

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Without the structure, the Mississippi River could shift course away from Baton Rouge and New Orleans. That could cut off the flow of river water altogether, meaning no fresh water for drinking,

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You draw your drinking water from the river?

I think that’s the backup plan for when the politicians in BR and NOLA frick up enough.

This is why you don’t taunt companies with “You going to take the river with you?”

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Which would silt up in three days. Do you even hydrology, brah

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There would still be a current through there.

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claims ORCS is to blame

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That's crazy. Killer whales aren't even in the Mississippi River.

the most northern structure of Old River is 6 miles from the southern state line of MS/LA.

Let LA Just take all the land up to woodville/centerville.

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You draw your drinking water from the river

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Below Baton Rouge, most of the towns along the river do. The River is the source of drinking water for nearly all of Orleans, Plaquemine, Jefferson, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. John, and St. James parish. If the river changes course, salt water will flow above new orleans, and that whole region of the state will be without drinking water absent a massive effort to build desalination plants BEFORE the salt water intrudes. Otherwise, the whole water system will have to be replaced due to the corrosive properties of salt water. One would risk cutting off the water supply for over half a million people as well as millions of acres of productive farmland. It would be an ecological disaster.

That’s not even counting all of the roads, towns, and bridges that would be completely destroyed along the Atchafalaya Basin. I-10 would be washed away, the spillway bridge would likely need replacing, Morgan City would be wiped off the face of the earth.

FInally, it is questionable whether the water level in the river south of Baton Rouge would remain deep enough for ocean-going ships. If not, then all of the industry allong that stretch is f$&ked.

Ha, good luck trying to sue the Corps. All they have to do is say, "National Interest" and/or "Public Safety."

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nope Ms is not even in the top 30, not sure where that lie even got started,

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That is total welfare expenditures not per capita and not net federal money into the state. Mississippi is the number 3 net taker of federal dollars behind New Mexico and West Virginia.



https://www.moneytips.com/is-your-state-a-net-payer-or-a-net-taker/356

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??? So you think that the river is going to stop flowing to the sea?

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Not completely, but substantially to the point that many, if not most docks used for shipping would end up high and dry in short order all along the river. Ultimately impacting not only commercial shipping but but various onloading/offloading at refineries, chemical, and agricultural facilities along the river. Since water levels would fall, the distances upriver that many of the deeper draft vessels go would be impacted substantially as well.

The costs to relocate facilities would be staggering. Perhaps this all needs to happen, but doing it in a haphazard manner would create a potentially disastrous economic disaster that would have ripples throughout the US economy.

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Thank you for highlighting the fact that as bad as the MS education system is we still have LA and a few others to look down on.

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Well, there is something to be proud of

But I will point out the following statistics.

Louisiana
% of HS graduates - 83.4% #46
% of Bachelors Degrees - 22.5% #46
% of Bachelors Degrees - 7.7%# 46
Mississippi
% of HS graduates - 82.3% #47
% of Bachelors Degrees - 20.7% #49
% of Bachelors Degrees - 7.7% #46

Both states could stand to do a lot better.