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1. What child didn’t dream of growing up to be a fluvial geomorphologist?

2. interesting, thanks for posting,

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3. Read an excellent article in the New Yorker before it became ultra-woke that discussed this issue in detail. Here it is: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya

   It was written shortly after the historic flood that threatened the entire structure. I felt enlightened after reading it. The engineer in me appreciated the struggles of building and controlling such a monster; the human felt the mysteries of the river. Highly recommended.

4. Rivers change course. It’s what they do. Remember this the next time someone tries to convince you they can control the climate.

   1. LOL, bingo.

5. Gravity, entropy, erosion (i.e., reality), mean nothing to bureaucrats, politicians, cronies and academics that live off the largess of the State, at the cost to everyone else.

   1. The American federally managed levee system works pretty well.
      Over 6000 levees with over 5 million acres and 20 million people living behind them.

6. Tosh. Any Manitoban could tell you that engineers cannot control Rivers because Rivers is already controlled by the Rivers Town Council. Common sense, when you think about it.