Environment
South of New Orleans, a task to divert the Mississippi river might bring back environments ruined by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and construct colony to safeguard versus water level increase
By James Dinneen
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Silt from the centre of the United States diminishes the Mississippi river to the sea
Gerald Herbert/ AP/ Alamy
The Mississippi river streams past New Orleans, Louisiana, at a typical rate of about 17,000 cubic metres per 2nd, bring more than a hundred million tonnes of sediment from the middle of the United States into the Gulf of Mexico each year. Standing along its coast on land made from such sediment, I see the silt spin in brown eddies in the river. That mud may quickly be used.
A building and construction group not far …
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