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New York Times: You may remember that during last year’s epic Mississippi River flooding, the Army Corps of Engineers opened spillways upriver of New Orleans and Baton Rouge to divert some water away from the cities. One of those spillways was the Bonnet Carré, built in the early 1930`s to protect New Orleans from high water.
When most of its bays were opened last May, the Bonnet Carré redirected 10 to 20 percent of the Mississippi’s floodwater out of the river and into Lake Pontchartrain.
While the diversion......
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How to Rebuild the Mississippi Delta
Posted by New York Times: Kelly Slivka on July 25th, 2012
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