Living in Louisiana, we've known this for years. And I knew you would mispronounce the Atchafalaya.,(reply>), The correct pronunciation is uh-CHAFF-uh-LIE-ah, for those wondering.,(reply>), and then there's the mississippi delta which just gets more land due to the amount of sediment that flows down the river,(reply>), actually the river historically has changed course every few thousand years and really came close in the 1970s. We have really sought to pervert the natural order of things.  Changing the course could result in land creation. (from Vicksburg - with lots of friends and relatives who worked for the army corp which is actually made up of civil engineers,(reply>), rp currey living in Minneapolis I feel sorry for how dirty the water is,(reply>), rp currey to be fair nobody can unless they grow up in Louisiana