To: Arizona Carolyn
Re: "In the 'old' days they delt with the floods which washed the silt through and kept everyone at the same land-level."
In the good old days of 1927, I believe it was, the Mississippi River flooded and covered about half of Louisiana and Mississippi... That's when the Corps of Engineers got started building levees to beat the band.
The Mighty Missip never just flushed all that silt just down it's channel...
3,380 posted on
08/29/2005 11:12:11 AM PDT by
sonofatpatcher2
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To: sonofatpatcher2
Yeah, but it is going to get interesting as the storm moves north. the silt will be washed into the river and run downstream to the delta. It will be quite a while until they can undertake the dredging and channel building. Debris and silt will be running for weeks. The rains upstream will DEFINITELY affect the delta. This IS NOT over for the delta region.
Semper FI
3,398 posted on
08/29/2005 11:15:30 AM PDT by
Trident/Delta
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