A $3 billion attempt to mimic Mother Nature is beginning in south Louisiana today. Massive gates will be incorporated into a section of a flood protection levee southeast of New Orleans to divert some of the Mississippi River’s sediment-laden water into a new channel that will guide it into southeast Louisiana’s Barataria Basin. If the
Controversial $3B Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project breaks ground
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