[Celtic Conservative]

The water table in LA is ludicrously high. That might pose a problem with underground lines.

CC

[gundog]

Yeah. Cemeteries inter people above ground.

[Rockingham]

For New Orleans, the problem is even worse in that the levees have led to the deposit of silt that has gradually raised the level of the river. Over time, the water in the river has gotten higher, while pumping to keep water out of the city has compacted and lowered the level of the soil in the city.

Eventually, as it has many times in the past, the Mississippi will find a new course to the sea, probably to the north of Baton Rouge mostly along the Atchafalaya River. This would put the Mississippi's new outlet to the Gulf at Morgan City, Louisiana, a route that has the benefit of being 193 miles shorter, steeper, and faster than the current course through New Orleans.

This would make New Orleans into a secondary port at best, without ready access by ship and barge to the upper river.