FOR A RIVER

Duration: 17 min

Creator: Corps of Engineers (Department of the Army)

Color: Color

Sound: Optical sound

Description: Shows how the lower Mississippi River, if left to its own devices, would meander its way to the Gulf of Mexico in an everchanging pattern of alignment, eroding its banks, breaching protective levees, destroying property, ruining the navigation channel, and disrupting waterborne commerce. The overall 'prescription' of the Army engineers to place and maintain the lower Mississippi River in a fixed channel is explained clearly by artwork.