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BATON ROUGE, La. — Engineers Wednesday
warned that the Mississippi River is dangerously near
abandoning its main channel within 1 to 20 years.
Louisiana officials were told that the river might soon
break out of its current channel and overtake the small
Atchafalaya River for a shorter route to the Gulf of
Mexico. This would necessitate a billion-dollar In the event of a flood, residents would
emergency repair job calling for man-made locks, dams more days to evacuate flood-prone areas, bot[§| ^achr}
and almost constant dredging to keep the waterway said the force of Mississippi River water rush™
floods similar to those in 1973. The added wst
increase currents enough to knock out existird
and send millions of cubic feet of water surging:
Atchafalaya River, knocking out bridges,
land wildlife, rupturing oil and gas pipelines ut|
massive flooding in Morgan City.
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In a report of their two-year study, engineers said the
breakout would occur in the center of the state where
Louisiana and Mississippi are separated by the river. It
could come as early as next spring or could be delayed
up to 20 years by a planned $216 million channel control
project by the Army Corps of Engineers.
Dr. Raphael Kazmann said the break would occur at
the Old River Control Structure — an 18-year-old sys
tem of dams, levees and locks near Simmsport, La., that
keeps the channel heading southeast to New Orleans.
Kazmann said the auxiliary structure “may buy us 20
years, but we’ve got to hurry up and get it built.”
Economist David Johnson said if the change occurs
soon, the increased water flow in the Atchafalaya chan
nel could destroy eight bridges and rip apart natural gas
pipelines supplying fuel to 28 eastern and southern
states.
Costs of emergency repairs if the break occurs sud
denly were estimated in the billions of dollars.
“We are talking about a calamity too horrible to con
template,” said state Rep. Jesse Guidry, whose Cecila,
La., home lies in the future flood plain. Guidry said the
federal government would have to foot the bill.
Kasmann said the Mississippi could make its inevit
able move as soon as next spring if the state experiences
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New Orleans would be reduced to a brackish
ary, he said. With locks or nearly constantd
river could remain navigable, but New 0rl(
need a new municipal water supply.
Scientists have known for nearly a centuiy
lower Mississippi channel was shifting,
lieve the main channel was once what
Lafourche — a waterway about halfway
present dav Mississiooi River and the Al
study completed in 1890 first identified thii
struggle to take over the Atchafalaya.
Following massive floods in 1927, thetederij
ment authorized construction of a huge systeis
gates and river controls near Simmsport, La.
engineers to siphon off Mississippi River wall
high water and save New Orleans and otheri
towns from flooding.
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