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Hidden Mississippi: War on Water

by eustatic / Dedecker
clean read of War on Water, part of Hidden Mississippi series for antigravity read and recorded and broadcast with permission from the author

http://www.antigravitymagazine.com/2014/11/hidden-mississippi-war-on-water/

a short History of the abandoned physical computer for the MR&T flood control system outside of Jackson.
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HIDDEN MISSISSIPPI: WAR ON WATER
by Breonne DeDecker Published November 2014
antigravity_vol12_issue1_Page_08_Image_0002Settlement and development of the lower Mississippi delta is all about water control and water management. Devastating floods— such as the great flood of 1927, which flooded 127,000 square miles in water as deep as 30 feet, taking months to subside and displacing 637,000 people, primarily African- Americans—made the control of water an economic and social necessity. The Flood Control Act of 1928 sought to tame the Mississippi River via dams, locks, runoff channels, and tried to protect towns and cities with higher and higher levees. But these attempts were inadequate. More flood events along the Mississippi River and elsewhere caused Congress to write more expansive flood control legislation in 1936, declaring it a matter of federal oversight and giving oversight to the Department of Defense’s Army Corps of Engineers.

Rivers were still being dealt with spot by spot, however. A river control project on the Mississippi might not know much about a river control project miles downriver in a neighboring state, or about a project happening on the Ohio River, despite the fact that the systems were inter- related. An engineer located in Memphis, Major Eugene Reybold, raised concerns to this effect: all of the rivers draining into the Mississippi River Basin needed to be studied and addressed in concert to ensure that river monitoring was as accurate as possible, resulting in quick responses to flood events. His solution: build a gigantic model of the river basin in order to play war games with potential floods. The Mississippi River Basin Model would be the largest project undertaken by the Army Corps, a 200-acre concrete sculpture representing 15,000 miles of riverways.
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