Rivers and pools become hostile environments for aquatic animals and fish as smothering sediment builds and fills pools and tidal basins. Wetlands are changed forever. The main weapon employed by the Corps was the levee. By any assessment, the unintended consequences of the battle with the river have developed into a nightmare. Levee-protected cities along the river are today tens of feet below river bottom level , its bed having filled with sediment.
Continued protection means building the levees higher and higher.
There will be a limit. Nature will ultimately have her way. If we stand in her path we can expect her to ignore us. Choose from more articles from Albright Seed Company.