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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1256109" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>CB, I read a very lengthy article one time about the Army Corp's Old River Control Structure and Atchafalya/Miss River. Old River is the crown jewel of the corps of engineers' Mississippi River levee system, but even they privately admit, it's days are numbered.</p><p>I've seen it lots of times, and it's an impressive looking achievement, but it's not in doubt the Miss is going to take the more direct route to the gulf--only thing in doubt is when.</p><p></p><p>Click the below paragraph--it's worth the read.</p><p><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya" target="_blank">The Corps had built Old River Control to control just about as much as was passing through it. In mid-March, when the volume began to approach that amount, curiosity got the best of Raphael G. Kazmann, author of a book called "Modern Hydrology" and professor of civil engineering at Louisiana State University. Kazmann got into his car, crossed the Mississippi on the high bridge at Baton Rouge, and made his way north to Old River. He parked, got out, and began to walk the structure. An extremely low percentage of its five hundred and sixty-six feet eradicated his curiosity. "That whole miserable structure was vibrating," he recalled in 1986, adding that he had felt as if he were standing on a platform at a small rural train station when "a fully loaded freight goes through." Kazmann opted not to wait for the caboose. "I thought, This thing weighs two hundred thousand tons. When two hundred thousand tons vibrates like this, this is no place for R. G. Kazmann. I got into my car, turned around, and got the hell out of there. I was just a professor—and, thank God, not responsible."</a></p><p></p><p>Mother Nature will win, she has more time than we do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1256109, member: 18945"] CB, I read a very lengthy article one time about the Army Corp's Old River Control Structure and Atchafalya/Miss River. Old River is the crown jewel of the corps of engineers' Mississippi River levee system, but even they privately admit, it's days are numbered. I've seen it lots of times, and it's an impressive looking achievement, but it's not in doubt the Miss is going to take the more direct route to the gulf--only thing in doubt is when. Click the below paragraph--it's worth the read. [url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya]The Corps had built Old River Control to control just about as much as was passing through it. In mid-March, when the volume began to approach that amount, curiosity got the best of Raphael G. Kazmann, author of a book called “Modern Hydrology” and professor of civil engineering at Louisiana State University. Kazmann got into his car, crossed the Mississippi on the high bridge at Baton Rouge, and made his way north to Old River. He parked, got out, and began to walk the structure. An extremely low percentage of its five hundred and sixty-six feet eradicated his curiosity. “That whole miserable structure was vibrating,” he recalled in 1986, adding that he had felt as if he were standing on a platform at a small rural train station when “a fully loaded freight goes through.” Kazmann opted not to wait for the caboose. “I thought, This thing weighs two hundred thousand tons. When two hundred thousand tons vibrates like this, this is no place for R. G. Kazmann. I got into my car, turned around, and got the hell out of there. I was just a professor—and, thank God, not responsible.”[/url] Mother Nature will win, she has more time than we do. [/QUOTE]
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