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La. Plan to Reclaim Land Would Divert the Mississippi
ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES, La. -- Over two centuries, engineers have restrained the Mississippi River's natural urge to wriggle disastrously out of its banks by building hundreds of miles of levees that work today like a riverine straitjacket.-
By Peter Whoriskey