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The Watchman And Southron
Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina
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Engineers in New Orleans debate if the Mississippi River might shift course through the Atchafalaya basin, held back only by 1896 stone sills, per federal engineer D. C. Waddill.
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New Orleans. May 21--(P)--Possibility that the Mississippi may be changing its course, so that in the future the stream will run to the Gulf of Mexico through the Atchafalaya river basin, occupied river engineers here today. The opinion that this might happen was expressed yesterday by Major John Gotwals, after a survey of the situation at Melville. Geo. C. Schoenderter, chief state engineer and John Klerer. New Orleans levee board engineer, said they believed it impossible. Late last night, however. D. C. Waddill, federal engineer in charge of the lower river, said that, all that was keeping the mighty current of the Mississippi from cutting a new and shorter channel to the Gulf was a pair of stone sills, built in the bed of the Atchafalaya in 1896.
Whether these sills will hold against the terrific force of the current was problematical, he believed.
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New Orleans
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May 21
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whether the stone sills built in 1896 will hold against the current is problematical.
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River engineers in New Orleans discussed the possibility of the Mississippi River changing course to flow through the Atchafalaya river basin to the Gulf of Mexico. Major John Gotwals expressed this opinion after surveying at Melville. Geo. C. Schoenderter and John Klerer believed it impossible. D. C. Waddill stated that only a pair of stone sills in the Atchafalaya bed from 1896 are preventing the change.