Posted on October 27, 2009 by quintascott
Last week a pair of geologists, at the University of Texas, Austin, proposed diverting the Mississippi and its sediment to Breton Sound on the east and Barataria Bay to the west in order to build new deltas in each body of water.They would make the diversions about ninety miles south of New Orleans, my guess near Grand [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2009 by quintascott
I am so glad to find I am wrong. There is money in the stimulus bill for the Upper Mississippi Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program, $8,604,000 to be exact.
The stimulus bill will fund first phases of construction of new 1,200-foot locks on the first five dams north of St. Louis. It will implement small-scale navigation aids, [...]
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Posted on December 29, 2008 by quintascott
It happened again on Saturday: Warm moist air hit a cold front and dumped inches and inches of rain, two inches in two hours in west-central Illinois, melting ice and snow and bringing flooding once again to the Midwest. The Mississippi rose 2.83 feet at St. Louis on Saturday, 9.68 inches on Sunday, and 4.o5 [...]
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