Cub Driver wrote:
On 31 Aug 2005 17:24:09 -0700, "Doug"
wrote:


Not as crazy as it sounds. Dig a big lake, convey the dirt over.


Actually, the problem seems to be that there IS a big lake,
Ponchatrain (however spelled). It leaked into New Orleans, causing the
big flood. It wasn't the storm surge that caused the problem, but
Ponchatrain.


That is one problem. Another is the fact that we've forced the river
there to stay inside a channel that we've defined, so it's no longer
dumping its load of sediment all over the countryside. The Mississippi
is not called "The Big Muddy" for nothing!