How river diversions powered and fed early New Orleans, sometimes amid controversy
Early diversions help build New Orleans
Will the diversions work? Yes
$2 billion Mid-Barataria project expected to result in net elevation gain in first century
The Sediment We Need is Behind Missouri River Dams
We need it. South Dakota and Nebraska have it. What is it? Sediment! A growing mountain’s worth of Missouri River silt and sand that would have flowed to the Mississippi River and down to Louisiana has instead been trapped behind a border dam