Back when the Mississippi River flowed wild, its ever-changing waters moved soil across the North American continent. It picked up sand and dirt in the north and brought it to the southern areas of what we now call the state of Louisiana. Thousands of years later, man-made barriers called levees and flood-control systems contain the powerful river. But Louisiana officials are making plans to use the Mississippi’s ancient power to build new land as a way to ease the threat of rising seas. Engineers hope to remake eroded, low-lying lands by cutting into the levees and redirecting the water. The water holds a lot of small dirt particles, or sediment. The sediments can flow into coastal basins. When the sediment particles settle out of the water, they will slowly gather into soil.
Title: Louisiana Hopes to Fight Coastal Destruction By Copying Nature
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3738/la.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Louisiana Hopes to Fight Coastal Destruction By Copying Nature' data-article-id='4219'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='11146'>Back when the Mississippi River flowed wild, its ever-changing waters moved soil across the North American continent.</span> <span data-start-time='11146' data-end-time='23188'>It picked up sand and dirt in the north and brought it to the southern areas of what we now call the state of Louisiana.</span> <span data-start-time='23188' data-end-time='34479'>Thousands of years later, man-made barriers called levees and flood-control systems contain the powerful river.</span> <span data-start-time='34479' data-end-time='48083'>But Louisiana officials are making plans to use the Mississippi’s ancient power to build new land as a way to ease the threat of rising seas.</span> <span data-start-time='48083' data-end-time='58792'>Engineers hope to remake eroded, low-lying lands by cutting into the levees and redirecting the water.</span> <span data-start-time='58792' data-end-time='65167'>The water holds a lot of small dirt particles, or sediment.</span> <span data-start-time='65167' data-end-time='69958'>The sediments can flow into coastal basins.</span> <span data-start-time='69958' data-end-time='77333'>When the sediment particles settle out of the water, they will slowly gather into soil.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div 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data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3738/redirect.wav'><span>redirect</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3738/ease_a_threat.wav'><span>ease a threat</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3738/slowly_destroy.wav'><span>slowly destroy</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3738/control_flooding.wav'><span>control flooding</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=13867 data-hint-location='34479' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3738/what_are_officials_planning_to_build.wav'>What are officials planning to build?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='new land'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3738/ancient_power.wav'><span>ancient power</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3738/more_sediment.wav'><span>more sediment</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3738/new_land.wav'><span>new land</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3738/coastal_basins.wav'><span>coastal basins</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=13868 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3738/the_river_waters_moved__blank__across_the_continent.wav'>The river waters moved <span class='blank'>soil</span> across the continent.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='soil'><div 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