Why Did The Atchafalaya River Collapse

The Atchafalaya River is a river that decides the fate of the Mississippi river. If it hadn’t been for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, then the Mississippi would be a completely different river than the one we know today. Businesses would have fallen a long time and put the US in an economic collapse, but today people still complain about how it needs to be done. Multiple complaints from farmers to fisherman, it all relies on the Corps to regulate the water supply and to prevent a disaster. It was and is thought to this day that trying to control the course of the Mississippi is a huge mistake or plain ignorant of people to believe it will work. In fact there are those that say that it could bust at any moment. The Corps pretty confident
The full name of the Corps is the US Army Corps of Engineers. They also have other reasons for being there beside the job of watching Old River. One is that they are there to help prevent another War of 1812. The British had invaded by the gulf. They were traveling to New Orleans. New Orleans had heard that they had already attacked the White house burning it down in the process and tried to destroy Baltimore. Luckily, some untrained American sharpshooters hid under cover and attacked, killing two thousand of the soldiers, forcing the opposing forces to retreat. The untrained Americans lost only seventy-one of their makeshift troops. Despite the Treaty of Ghent being signed, the people of New Orleans fear of another attack. Now two millennia later, and they still fear of an attack from Great Britain. This is where the US Army Corps of engineers comes in. They ease the people’s state of mind and make them feel safe. Now if you want the beginning of the US Army Corps of Engineers, then you would have to date back to the time of the revolutionary war. George Washington was looking for engineers but could not find many, so he hired some from King Louis XVI. This means that the first US Army Corps of Engineers were mainly French. Another reason they are there is to help improve inland navigation. Like I mentioned previously, the rivers in this area are treacherous. A big engineer is a man named, Thomas Sands. He is the successor of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard. He was a raking engineer who in the 1840s-50s who supervised all the advancements. Thomas was raised up near Nashville. He went to Texas A&M to get an advanced degree in hydrology. At night while working for the pentagon, he got a law degree. He spent three years in charge of the New Orleans District as the Colonel. Then Thomas commanded at the Corps’ North Atlantic Division as the Brigadier General. At this job he worked from Virginia to