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The Morganza structure is part of a plan from 1927!! Let that sink in. The hubris of the Army Corp is astounding. Truthfully the Mississippi needs to be split beyond its current 70/30 norm. Everyone says this is ‘just to save NOLA’. That’s true on its face but the economic impacts of losing control of the river would be devastating to the national economy. Solving this will take a disaster. Sad to say but no politician has the stones to make very hard very unpopular decisions.

If the Morganza and Old River structures ever fail together Baton Rouge & New Orleans will be high & dry and you'll have to scrape Morgan City off the north coast of the Yucatan peninsula.

Excellent commentary! I am no engineer, but I think the gates could have been opened sooner. However, I am glad we have these spillways in place!

You know what would be cheaper? Buy out the families that live down on those flood areas and let the damn water out instead of keeping these levees on max. Towboats are sinking and people are losing their lives over this high ass river we seem to be keeping because the corps doesn’t wanna open the gates. Now what’s more costly a select few down in the bayou who gets flooded or levees breaking and having a whole damn city devastated. I’m not the smartest man but you keep playing with those waters at max level and I guarantee you will regret it. Damn government/corps playing with peoples lives

85 cents for a soda?!

I love this piece. It is very understandable. The narrator is excellent. Love the way it was broken down. Thanks for posting.