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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by tomtrain Re: the canal stuff. The Army Corps is pushing hard to $revamp$ the upper Mississippi. Why do I have a heart for something that's a loser's game?[V] I think I'll go model railroad... [/quote] Really? Wow! To do formal "freight" canals? Or things more related to allowing them to better regulate the Water flow of the mississippi? If the later, yeah I'm somewhat familiar with that, the Corps has done it's dernedest to ruin the Water level of the St Mary's river behind my house. It seems some genius determined that excess runoff (rain) could be diverted easily from the Wabash river valley to the Maumee Valley, with just a little creative work at Grand Lake St Mary's, over in Ohio. So now where I once had boat docks, the water level raises 5 feet eveytime we get a good rain, roughly overnight, where previously the net effect was about a foot and a half. The improvements they came through here and did as part of it all, were sold to us as "flood control". Funny thing is, what used to be one big flood with the spring thaw, is now one big flood with the spring thaw and a half dozen smaller floods throughout the year, making me reluctant to even leave a boat chained at my own boatdock. Gotta love the corps.
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