Posted on March 11, 2024
The Mississippi river flows past New Orleans, Louisiana, at an average rate of about 17,000 cubic metres per second, carrying more than a hundred million tonnes of sediment from the middle of the US into the Gulf of Mexico each year.
Standing along its shore on land made of such sediment, I watch the silt spin in brown eddies in the river.
That mud might soon be put to use.
