{"id":211291,"date":"2024-03-08T12:03:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T12:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/engineers-are-diverting-mississippi-river-to-restore-louisianas-coast\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:02","slug":"engineers-are-diverting-mississippi-river-to-restore-louisianas-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/engineers-are-diverting-mississippi-river-to-restore-louisianas-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineers are diverting Mississippi river to restore Louisiana\u2019s coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Silt from the centre of the US runs down the Mississippi river to the sea<\/p>\n

Gerald Herbert\/ AP \/ Alamy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

The Mississippi river flows past New Orleans, Louisiana, at an average rate of about 150,000 cubic metres per second, carrying more than a hundred million tonnes of sediment from the middle of the US into the Gulf of Mexico each year. Standing along its shore on land made of such sediment, I watch the silt spin in brown eddies in the river. That mud might soon be put to use.<\/p>\n

A construction team not far\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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