This is the 100 mile cruise down
the Mississippi River to the Gulf. Some call it the Mighty
Mississippi. Others the Muddy Mississippi. It is the mud and
silt that this river carries that replenished the delta, however, the man
made dikes or levees prevent flooding . Rather than allow the river to flood
the delta, the levees force the water and silt to shoot down the river into the Gulf.
The delta is dying. Erosion is the devil here.
The photo shows the Levee wall. Here's a link to musician Tab Benoit,
who I will mention later -
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