ok lets be clear. The natural course of events is that the Coastline would not erode but in fact expand. There is no natural reason for it to erode. For instance if man had never set foot there in that area that the Coast would not be losing ground. Infact in many areas it would have expanded. Now going from that premisie it seems there fore since MOther Nature cant be controlled we can reverse the problems that man createed by its interference in the whole scheme of thing at least in part. Now your question about the Miss River is indeed quite good. IN fact as I pointed above we are one smart terrorist atttack at the right time to make alot of this discussion about River Diversion projects quite academic. I would consider if other projects would not work to allow ,under man's supervision of course, the River to return to a course that it more wnats to take. IN fact perhaps what we should do and maybe try to do it why we have some control. Of course its expensive
Also for all this talk about Nature taking its course a few thoughts. The natural way of events is that the the Mississippi river should be overflowing its banks and changing course all over the place. This doesnt just occur in our happy State but in great areas of the country. The benifits being that new sediment replenishes once rich farmland. All those in MIssouri Arkansas Tenn etc that are for this please say yea.