A Design To Stop Louisiana From Drowning By Adding Faucets To The Mississippi | Fast Company

Louisiana is drowning: Over the last eight decades, more than 2,000 square miles of land have disappeared underwater. When engineers sealed off the Mississippi River with levees to prevent flooding in the 1930s, they also cut off the river's natural process of building land.

Before the river was "channelized"—locked into an artificial path—it curved through the Delta dumping piles of sediment that slowly built up the ground and helped protect cities like New Orleans from storms. Now a new design, called Delta for All, proposes bringing that process back.

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Corps of Engineers needs to fix MR-GO damage: Editorial | NOLA.com

Congress said in 2007 that it wanted the Army Corps of Engineers to pick up the entire cost of replacing wetlands destroyed by the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet. The corps is continuing to ignore that directive, however. Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick, chief of the corps, insisted again last week that Louisiana should pay 35 percent of the $2.9 billion tab. State officials said the corps is demanding that the state sign a letter giving up its claim that the corps is required to pay the full cost. The state refused to capitulate, and rightly so...

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In Cleaning Oiled Marshlands, A Sea Of Unknowns | NPR

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On a coastal marsh south of New Orleans, oil still saturates a 30-foot-wide stretch. Where hip-high grass should be, the oil has formed a hard, dark mat. If you dig though that crust, you find a thick, oozy layer of oil. "It hasn't weathered or degraded much since it came ashore in early June," says scientist Scott Zengel, a contractor for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who is overseeing the marsh survey crews...

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Group sponsors event to restore Avery Island wetlands | 2theadvocate.com

America’s Wetland Conservation Corps is holding a marsh planting session from 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday to help restore Avery Island wetlands.

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