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

Posted on 2/12/19 at 12:28 pm to
Posted by NYNolaguy1
Member since May 2011
21836 posts
Posted on 2/12/19 at 12:28 pm to
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If the river became saline all the way up to Natchez,


Being as the new mississippi estuary would never get above sealevel, I doubt it goes above Gramercy.
Posted by Macavity92
Member since Dec 2004
6349 posts
Posted on 2/12/19 at 12:29 pm to
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It wouldn't 100% divert, there would still be a substantial amount of water flowing down the old channel. I'm from Concordia parish so I'm pretty familiar with the control structure.


Correct. And NO would become a salt water port.

If you want to stop Louisiana’s coastal erosion allow the River to change course. The silt would spread out across the coast.
Posted by BottomlandBrew
Member since Aug 2010
30182 posts
Posted on 2/12/19 at 4:47 pm to
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If you want to stop Louisiana’s coastal erosion allow the River to change course.


To say any one thing would stop coastal loss shows ignorance of the myriad of issues that cause LA to lose land. Keeping loss from progressing further would take monumental interventions throughout the Mississippi watershed. To reverse loss is, imo, an impossibility given the inability of America to make the hard decisions necessary.
Posted by jimbeam
University of LSU
Member since Oct 2011
75703 posts
Posted on 2/12/19 at 4:56 pm to
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If you want to stop Louisiana’s coastal erosion
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