America’s Achilles’ Heel: The Old River Control Structure

America’s Achilles’ Heel: The Old River Control Structure
America's Achilles' Heel lies on a quiet, unpopulated stretch of the Mississippi River in Louisiana. Four monolithic concrete and steel structures rise up from the flat, wooded floodplain of the Mississippi River: the $2 billion Old River Control Structure.

June 21, 2019 at 08:34AM
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