Louisiana land loss: What is a sediment diversion?
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Louisiana land loss: What is a sediment diversion?
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In Water’s Edge Part 1.2, Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) has plans to use the Mississippi River’s natural resources to build land at the rate of one inch per year. But in a place that’s lost more land than the total area of the Grand Canyon, are sediment diversions the answer?March 29, 2019