Full Documentary: Moving This Mississippi

[@christopheb9221]

the coastline will always be eroded by the sea. the problem, not mentioned is upstream. Dams interrupt the water carrying sediment allowing it to fall out in lakes and preventing floods from picking up massive amounts when the river spills over its banks.

[@johnryman1366]

What could possibly go wrong?

[@texasforever7887]

Eventually some day the old river structure will be overwhelmed and the Mississippi will be captured by the Atchafalaya River bypassing Baton Rouge and New Orleans. None of this will matter when that disaster happens.

[@north005]

I could be wrong, but as I understand it the Mississippi is already low on silt/sediment at the delta because it's settling out around Old River.

[@sbclaridge]

I’d think that we should prepare for the inevitability that the Atchafalaya River will capture the flow of the Mississippi River. This includes ensuring the appropriate infrastructure is in place for when the course change happens, such as higher bridges (to handle ship traffic), etc. Problem is, this would mean that New Orleans and Baton Rouge would lose their fresh water. Salt water from the Gulf of Mexico would fill the current channel of the Mississippi River. The areas along the current channel would also receive less sediment, allowing the Gulf of Mexico to erode the marshes and wetlands (which is already happening due to the lack of sediment deposition). Notice, however, that the land is growing around the mouth of the Atchafalaya! We can only try to control the river for a limited period of time. The Old River Control Structure (ORCS) is becoming less effective, and time may be running out. Sooner or later, the river will do what it naturally wants to do (change course), likely in conjunction with a major flooding event that overwhelms the ORCS. The best thing, for the long-term health of the Mississippi Delta, would be allowing the river to change its course. If we plan for the inevitability of this course change, preparations could be made in as controlled of a manner as possible. Continuing to deny the inevitability of a course change (with respect to infrastructure planning) will only make a catastrophic course change a bigger disaster when it finally happens… and it will happen. It’s better to be prepared than unprepared.

[@anthonydecamp3126]

Quit building on it and quit trying to engineer crap and let mother nature fix it herself nature is the best way to fix anything when it comes to the environment people need to leave it the hell alone stop building on it and and stop redesigning it for their purpose

[@arrepuess]

How about they send sea water desalination salt brine to the opening of these sea life fisheries? May be hard to do, but doable? West coast needs fresh water bad.

[@jakedrago7805]

I don’t understand why a combination of dredging and diversions are not happening. That way they can maximize the benefits while minimizing the damage .

[@foggy_b2837]

I don't think this will work nearly as well as they hope. If anything, this may accelerate erosion.

[@OceanDriveSpeeder]

Really.......... is there a lot of dirt in those pipes?

[@loragunning5394]

I saw a documentary film decades ago about the ongoing engineering efforts to keep the Mississippi River out of NO and it was very sobering. Prior to the establishment of NO, the river fanned back and forth across it's delta for hundreds of thousands of years, silting up it's channel and moving earth further and further out into The Gulf. Now the river is constrained by levees to the channels most convenient to the human inhabitants and industry of the area, and has been silting those channels for the last couple of hundred years, necessitating the raising of the levees on a regular basis, so the point where the river now runs is above the level of the city itself, in many areas. Those areas of the river's delta that the river used to fan across and expand and enrich have been sinking due to lack of being replenished and the silt deposits exiting the levees into the Gulf are now so far out into the Gulf that they are in very deep water and will likely never create above sea level land. The engineering required to keep the river out of NO happens hundreds of miles upstream. It is the single largest ongoing engineering project in the history of humankind and, if NO is to be preserved, will be ongoing forever. It costs BILLIONS of dollars every year. At some point in time, the cost to keep the river out of the city will exceed the value of the city and all it's revenue, and the city will have to be abandoned, the levees torn down, and the river allowed to run free and repair the damage hundreds of years of human intervention has created. The film I watched presented the ideas some parts of the city could be saved, possibly by doming them, but basically, eventually, the city would have to be largely abandoned. Katrina was, in many ways, a wake up call. Not all the areas devastated were rebuilt. Some of the most ruined, lowest lying areas were taken back by the state and federal government via exercising eminent domain. It was less expensive for the governments to buy the properties than it was to pay to have them rebuilt, then return the properties to the delta lands they had been. We'll be seeing more and more of this, I am certain, as time goes on. I don't remember the name of the film, sorry, was back in the early 90's, when the community I lived in experienced a catastrophic flood. I was living at the time on Fir Island, a river delta stubborn Dutch immigrants had built levees around and reclaimed the delta for farming land. Ebey Island, the next levee enclosed river delta to our south, was bought out via eminent domain and returned to the river. Fir Island was rebuilt, but many farmers since then have sold some of their acreage to the government and the levees have been extended to give the river more space to flood thru.

[@Female.Lesbian]

Dredge the Mississippi river

[@delilahdavis1219]

Really like your detailed insightful comments.

[@mindybluephotography]

people ruin everything

[@philiphorner31]

Whatever

[@pdmustgtd1013]

Ocean not raising but land is sinking

[@boopshanaa]

Interesting.

[@denveyebanks4787]

Can you please show where and how much the "Rising Seal Levels" are? I can see how the land is being eroded so much but where is the rise?

[@pdmustgtd1013]

It's really not rising just land sinking in many places

[@denveyebanks4787]

@@pdmustgtd1013 But the headlines say "The threat of rising seal levels are scary" Others "we are doomed" Simply just scare tactics. Same as so many product advertisers. Your teeth are going to fall out if you don't use OUR product! Who can be trusted...Nobody!

[@pdmustgtd1013]

@@denveyebanks4787 50 yrs of climate scare

[@denveyebanks4787]

@@pdmustgtd1013 Absolutely. So glad to find someone who agrees. Cannot understand how so many allow themselves to be brainwashed this way. Think much of it is from our schools telling our kids what to think instead of how to think.

[@MUPDMUPD-ib2nd]

I was like 7 or 8th years old when i read Hackleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer...they were my childhood heroes. Now i'm 35 years old and because of my childhood heroes i want to have a great adventure on Mississippi river just like them. It is my dream...and some day i will ve there...I hope that US will gona let romanians in US without visa...someday

[@mindybluephotography]

I've always wanted to canoe/kayak the MIssissippi from the headwaters to New Orleans. I'm 58 now and not in great shape, but if I had the time and money, I'd try it anyways.

[@MUPDMUPD-ib2nd]

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[@elizaco901]

MISSISSIPPI IS RUN OUT OF DRINKING 💧..

[@larrysmith8635]

Sorry fresh water way more important then clams / oysters. Go out into the ocean two thirds of earth water. Not fresh water that small%

[@anthonydecamp3126]

No fuel line from the north to the South so no water line from the East to the West makes perfect sense to me leave the Mississippi alone

[@Traci.Nelson]

would the CA Recall Candidate's proposed water pipeline from the Mississippi to California help with Louisiana's land rebuild goals? in other words would diverting the fresh water from the Miss. via a pipeline to drought stricken Southwest states "dredge" enough water to rebuild Louisiana's land?

[@ron.hertzberg]

They rely on the sediment from the flooding to stop them from eroding away.

[@SpookyRedz]

Billions are going out of our country everyday , fix Louisiana here at our home

[@bugsybogart6926]

Move The Higher Upper River Channels To Las Vegas

[@thomasaquinas2600]

The Mississippi has 'moved' before, and efforts to redirect have had mixed results. Even General Grant toyed with the idea during the Civil War. The point is, if we could divert the water towards the depleted Aquifer or, better still, even farther West, that troublesome water would be an utter godsend to those fine people out west.

[@jamebrooke894]

Why would anybody do that? Out west?? They've drained natural lakes dry in California, not to mention the Colorado River! Stolen water that use to flow into Mexico. No the water problems out west are their man-made issue.

[@matthewnoah1814]

The sea levels have not risen one inch since 1914 levels!! Prove me wrong!! My uncle has a house on an island in the keys and his house is exactly 4 foot above the water and it has been exactly 4foot above water for 35 years except during storm surge’s!!

[@patrickday4206]

I think they have risen but it's tiny about an eighth of an inch a year

[@ratimes8k]

this is ridiculous….

[@terryhaller3718]

It's drying up now.

[@benanders4412]

Looking at these plans and shaking my head. Why invent the wheel when somebody else already did? Go to the Netherlands and ask them how to solve this problem. It's not hard to solve this. Just costly and time consuming. I think the bigger problem here are the people who are already sold on this plan. It will be hard to change their mind and convince them there is a better way.

[@SpookyRedz]

God help us if we waste it , come on Billy , you are a big part of it if y’all fail

[@memphiswasp]

If the corps of engineer's plan is benefitial for the entire population, then this fisherman is going to look like one of the most selfish a`holes in history. We would hate for him to have to find a new spot to fish. Poor guy...

[@cmgngmc]

GET ALL THE FUNDING YOU WANT AND ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY IS ----- CLIMATE CHANGE

[@philiphorner31]

The sea level has not risen.

[@thomaslonggun2694]

Robert Campo will have to restructure his business and it will cost him big bucks! He has a choice to make lose the habitat that’s allowed him to make a good living for many years or lose the habitat altogether!

[@willempasterkamp862]

nothing exeptional, florida is also sinking

[@philiphorner31]

I figured Forest Gump was out there

[@MrMustangMan]

Bubba Gump Shrimp

[@denisestarr2314]

Migration has always happened.

[@mkl126]

where is the curvature

[@OceanDriveSpeeder]

Here in the West, we could really use that water! While I know it's expensive, I'd like to see a pipeline or aqueduct pump water into Southern Colorado and AZ via Colorado & Green River.

[@anthonydecamp3126]

Yeah and I'd like to see a pipeline come from the north to bring our fuel to the United States. No fuel line no water lines

[@patrickday4206]

I thought that's what the Indians were fighting

[@unarammer2003]

thanks for proving the earth is not a spinning water ball globe...the earth is flat!!!

[@xoliletsotetsi9151]

It still isn't

[@unarammer2003]

@@xoliletsotetsi9151 still isn't a spinning water ball...why didn't they add curvature to the model?? because there is no curvature...water does not bend around a ball,every 5yr old knows this..

[@xoliletsotetsi9151]

Because of gravity pulling everything towards the centre of the earth.

[@unarammer2003]

@@xoliletsotetsi9151 if the earth was a globe the Mississippi river would have to ascend up miles of curvature,how could it go up the curvature if gravity was pulling it down??? think for yourself and stop believing sun worshipping globe priest..

[@unarammer2003]

@@xoliletsotetsi9151 here ya go...where is the curvature?? kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqDFn4KKgK6djac