Around The River Bend: Covering The Flood - Couric & Co.
Maybe something like the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) for a National Water Control effort should be convened for the Mississippi. I worked on the Tenn-Tom Barge Canal (which hooks the Tennessee R. with the Tombigbee R. through the state of MS and AL into Mobile Bay, which was touted as an alternative to the Mississippi River, in times of flood or drought (chosen by the Congress in the 1970s over an "energy island" offshore for NYC) in the archeology around the Waverly Plantation, near Columbus, MS (author/playwright Tennessee Williams hometown) where ice from Boston once traveled to, and if they could accomplish that maybe states would not be so prone to arguments upriver and downriver and a nice Federal inter-pleader could be created. It's a shame, former President Lincoln won his case against the riverboats for the bridges, and the smokestacks had to be put on hinges.
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