There's too much dirt in the Mississippi River

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There's too much dirt in the Mississippi River

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yet our coast is eroding.

thanks levees.

Thanks Mitch....fricking statues fault

That's some good dirt too...

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Just dredge it now, and dredge it on a regular basis.

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They do. Its dredged all the way up to Baton Rouge

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The Corps dredges the river south of NOLA all the time in order to maintain the shipping channel.

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The river is dredged just as much, if not more, above NOLA to maintain the shipping channel.

After high river, there are dredges non stop in the channels when the river is low

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Another alternative is to set off dynamite charges along the elevated river bottom during high river periods,

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There's too much dirt in the Mississippi River

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yet our coast is eroding.

thanks levees.

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And Oyster Fishermen

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State spends billions on diversions and coastal restoration. Then the river changes paths making it all essentially worthless.

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Nah, they'd just spend billions more diverting it back.

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Essentially... the river bottom just south of the control structure has risen dramatically due to sediment deposits.

This would seem to have a very simple solution: Just dredge it now, and dredge it on a regular basis. The Corps dredges the river south of NOLA all the time in order to maintain the shipping channel.

Am I missing something here that makes this more complex than it seems?

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If you own a dredger you are set for life. they pay dredgers to dredge the river 365 and just deposit it back into the water column. Look at the one West of Downtown BR. Always there. Just moves around. Just depositing back into the water column. Just getting paid.

The Corp is basically against someone paying for the extra pump/pipe to deposit to a different area then what the Corp has permits for. So the deposits get dredged to one location then you have to dredge from there to the location you want. When it would have been cheaper to just reroute the first dredges pipe.