On Jun 1, 8:09*am, jeff wrote:
On 6/1/2011 8:42 AM, riverman wrote:

On May 16, 10:17 pm, Ken
wrote:
Given the flooding going on in the lower Mississippi today this
*GREAT* article from 1987 is an absolutely fascinating read.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/198...039_TNY_CARDS_....

--
Ken Fortenberry

Don't have the patience to read 27 pages of "the Atchafalaya will
eventually be the new drainage of the Mississippi".

--riverman

the article was worth the read...lots of fascinating local color and
nuggets in the midst of the science and engineering and politics of a
failing policy....

jeff

Wouldn't it be interesting to encounter a policy that is NOT failing?

g.
yeah, i know, unmurrican......so, sue me.