The Mississippi River’s New Channel to the Gulf of Mexico
by
James F. Barnett Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Beyond Control reveals the Mississippi as a waterway of change, unnaturally confined by ever-larger levees and control structures. During the great flood of 1973, the current scoured a hole beneath the main structure near Baton Rouge and enlarged a pre-existing football-field-size crater. That night...