Researchers Study Historic Mississippi Flow and Impacts of River Regulation

ENN
Jun 9, 2021, 11:43 am196 pts
In “Atchafalaya,” John McPhee’s essay in the 1989 book The Control of Nature, the author chronicles efforts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prevent the Atchafalaya River from changing the course of the Mississippi River where they diverge, due to the Atchafalaya’s steeper gradient and more direct…

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