Yeah, the raised Galveston about 20 feet with fill as I recall. It's worked
pretty good.

Seem to me we should take all of that delta mud that keeps extending the
Mississippi and use it to fill in the parts of N.O. that can never be saved
and raise it to 20 feet above sea level. That would take care of a lot of
future settling. It would also shorten the Mississippi channel. The
historic and commercial sections of the city could be left in the "bowl" as
a major tourist attraction and would be mush less volume to protect and pump
out. A major major project but better than spending the money on some other
silly government project.

Rod
"Dave S" wrote in message
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Bob Fry wrote:


It's been done befo


Galveston underwent a similar transformation after the 1900 storm.

Dave