Return Trip - Navigator Castor
Navigator Castor.
Waterways are one of the most defining physical characteristics of southeast Louisiana. And they’re one of my favorite places to be when I’m back home.
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The Mississippi River is one of the America’s most commercially important and aesthetically beautiful waterways. It is the second largest river in the country, spanning 2,300 miles from Minnesota to Louisiana. The river is 20 feet wide at its narrowest point and 11 miles at its widest. The shipping channel’s largest section is 2 miles wide. It’s watershed touches 31 states.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers maintains a 9-foot shipping channel originating in Minneapolis and ending in Baton Rouge. From Baton Rouge to the mouth of the Gulf, the shipping channel is dredged to 45 feet for ocean-going vessels. Along this final leg, commerce and all of the things required to maintain it are abundant. But it provides an interesting look at how all of those things still measure up to the natural environment in terms of scale.
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