How river diversions powered and fed early New Orleans, sometimes amid controversy
Early diversions help build New Orleans

How river diversions powered and fed early New Orleans, sometimes amid controversy
$2 billion Mid-Barataria project expected to result in net elevation gain in first century
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