Beyond control: the Mississippi River's new channel to the Gulf of Mexico
"Often depicted in popular culture as a timeless, unchanging icon of Middle America, Beyond Control: The Mississippi River's New Channel to the Gulf of Mexico reveals the Mississippi as a river of change, unnaturally confined by ever-larger levees and control structures. During the great f...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Often depicted in popular culture as a timeless, unchanging icon of Middle America, Beyond Control: The Mississippi River's New Channel to the Gulf of Mexico reveals the Mississippi as a river of change, unnaturally confined by ever-larger levees and control structures. During the great flood of 1973, the Mississippi River nearly changed its course for a shorter and steeper path to the sea. Since then, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Control Complex at Old River has kept the Mississippi from jumping out of its historic channel and plunging through the Atchafalaya Basin to the Gulf of Mexico. Such a map-changing reconfiguration of the country's largest river would have national significance as well as disastrous consequences for New Orleans and towns like Morgan City, at the mouth of the Atchafalaya River. Beyond Control traces the history of this phenomenon, beginning with a major channel shift around 3,000 years ago. By the time European colonists began to explore the Lower Mississippi Valley, a unique confluence of waterways had formed where the Red River joined the Mississippi, and the Atchafalaya River flowed out into the Atchafalaya Basin. A series of human alterations to this potentially volatile web of rivers, starting with a bend cutoff in 1831 by Captain Henry Miller Shreve, set the forces in motion for the Mississippi's move into the Atchafalaya Basin. Told against the backdrop of the Lower Mississippi River's impending diversion, the book's chapters chronicle historic floods, rising flood crests, our changing strategy for flood protection, and competing interests in the management of the Old River outlet. Beyond Control is both a history and a close look at an inexorable, natural process happening here in the twenty-first century"... |
| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis Seite 249-279. Index |
| Beschreibung: | xi, 292 Seiten Karten 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781496811134 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
IX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
3
INTRODUCTION
13
THE
LANGUAGE
OF
THE
RIVER
17
CHAPTER
ONE
RIVER
OF
CHANGE
40
CHAPTER
TWO
TROUBLE
THE
WATER
69
CHAPTER
THREE
BLESSING
AND
CURSE
95
CHAPTER
FOUR
THE
OTHER
SIDE
OF
THE
FLOOD
116
CHAPTER
FIVE
YET
TROUBLE
CAME
136
CHAPTER
SIX
THE REAL
CRISIS
155
CHAPTER
SEVEN
THE
WARNING
168
CHAPTER
EIGHT
PREPARING
FOR UNCERTAINTY
187
CHAPTER
NINE
AWAITING
THE
PROJECT
FLOOD
205
249
281
$
B1IOTHEK
DEUTSCHES
MUSEUM
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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| spelling | Barnett, James F. 1950- (DE-588)136716628 aut Beyond control the Mississippi River's new channel to the Gulf of Mexico James F. Barnett Jr. Jackson University Press of Mississippi 2017 xi, 292 Seiten Karten 23 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier America's third coast series Literaturverzeichnis Seite 249-279. Index "Often depicted in popular culture as a timeless, unchanging icon of Middle America, Beyond Control: The Mississippi River's New Channel to the Gulf of Mexico reveals the Mississippi as a river of change, unnaturally confined by ever-larger levees and control structures. During the great flood of 1973, the Mississippi River nearly changed its course for a shorter and steeper path to the sea. Since then, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Control Complex at Old River has kept the Mississippi from jumping out of its historic channel and plunging through the Atchafalaya Basin to the Gulf of Mexico. Such a map-changing reconfiguration of the country's largest river would have national significance as well as disastrous consequences for New Orleans and towns like Morgan City, at the mouth of the Atchafalaya River. Beyond Control traces the history of this phenomenon, beginning with a major channel shift around 3,000 years ago. By the time European colonists began to explore the Lower Mississippi Valley, a unique confluence of waterways had formed where the Red River joined the Mississippi, and the Atchafalaya River flowed out into the Atchafalaya Basin. A series of human alterations to this potentially volatile web of rivers, starting with a bend cutoff in 1831 by Captain Henry Miller Shreve, set the forces in motion for the Mississippi's move into the Atchafalaya Basin. Told against the backdrop of the Lower Mississippi River's impending diversion, the book's chapters chronicle historic floods, rising flood crests, our changing strategy for flood protection, and competing interests in the management of the Old River outlet. Beyond Control is both a history and a close look at an inexorable, natural process happening here in the twenty-first century"... Geschichte 1800-2000 gnd rswk-swf TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Flood Control / bisacsh NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers / bisacsh HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) / bisacsh Geschichte Flood control Mississippi River History Floods Mississippi River Valley History Floodplain management Mississippi River Valley History TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Flood Control NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) Hochwasserschutz (DE-588)4025290-5 gnd rswk-swf Überflutung (DE-588)4293487-4 gnd rswk-swf Wasserbau (DE-588)4064700-6 gnd rswk-swf Kanalisierung (DE-588)4460086-0 gnd rswk-swf USA Mississippi River Channelization History Mississippi Fluss (DE-588)4039589-3 gnd rswk-swf Red River Mississippi, Fluss (DE-588)4267240-5 gnd rswk-swf Mississippi Fluss (DE-588)4039589-3 g Red River Mississippi, Fluss (DE-588)4267240-5 g Überflutung (DE-588)4293487-4 s Kanalisierung (DE-588)4460086-0 s Hochwasserschutz (DE-588)4025290-5 s Wasserbau (DE-588)4064700-6 s Geschichte 1800-2000 z DE-604 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB Barnett, James F., 1950- author Beyond control Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2017 9781496811141 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB 9781496811158 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF 9781496811165 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF 9781496811172 Digitalisierung Deutsches Museum application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=029960582&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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| title | Beyond control the Mississippi River's new channel to the Gulf of Mexico |
| title_auth | Beyond control the Mississippi River's new channel to the Gulf of Mexico |
| title_exact_search | Beyond control the Mississippi River's new channel to the Gulf of Mexico |
| title_full | Beyond control the Mississippi River's new channel to the Gulf of Mexico James F. Barnett Jr. |
| title_fullStr | Beyond control the Mississippi River's new channel to the Gulf of Mexico James F. Barnett Jr. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Beyond control the Mississippi River's new channel to the Gulf of Mexico James F. Barnett Jr. |
| title_short | Beyond control |
| title_sort | beyond control the mississippi river s new channel to the gulf of mexico |
| title_sub | the Mississippi River's new channel to the Gulf of Mexico |
| topic | TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Flood Control / bisacsh NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers / bisacsh HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) / bisacsh Geschichte Flood control Mississippi River History Floods Mississippi River Valley History Floodplain management Mississippi River Valley History TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Flood Control NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) Hochwasserschutz (DE-588)4025290-5 gnd Überflutung (DE-588)4293487-4 gnd Wasserbau (DE-588)4064700-6 gnd Kanalisierung (DE-588)4460086-0 gnd |
| topic_facet | TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Flood Control / bisacsh NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers / bisacsh HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) / bisacsh Geschichte Flood control Mississippi River History Floods Mississippi River Valley History Floodplain management Mississippi River Valley History TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Flood Control NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) Hochwasserschutz Überflutung Wasserbau Kanalisierung USA Mississippi River Channelization History Mississippi Fluss Red River Mississippi, Fluss |
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