Quote:
Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
The main purpose of
the New Orleans levee
system is to keep passable
the lower Mississippi,
Not to save private houses
or other properties.
The river wouldn't be navigable
without the levees.
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We can rebuild them to that point, then. I should have known that. I think it's like the definition of a levee, which now that I am thinking about it is not synonymous with floodwall.
