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To: Bill/WA who wrote (52512)	12/29/2000 10:15:53 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Nothing is OT on this board, within reason, or even beyond reason in some cases.-g- I would have thought John McPhee was famous since most of his essays were printed in the New Yorker, not exactly an obscure publication. His history of the orange is one of my favorite books. I am from Louisiana - his essay on the Old River Locks on the Mississippi River by the Atchafalaya Basin is phenomenal. The Mississippi River bed is silted up and the river wants to change course through the Atchafalaya Basin, not past Baton Rouge and New Orleans and all the petrochemical plants and refineries that depend on river water for cooling and river boats to haul stuff in and out. If it does, those billions of dollars worth of refineries and petrochemical plants will be worthless, because south of Baton Rouge, the only fresh water is in the river, and that will become a salt water estuary. So it's an interesting problem, and the solutions the Corps has come up with are ingenious. The structures the Corps have built are well worth a visit if you happen to be in the area and are a fan of huge constructions. You can walk out on them over the river, and feel them shaking because the river is so powerful, especially in the spring. Anyway, McPhee did an excellent job explaining it all.