
Mississippi River Basin Model
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
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The Impacts of Flooding on the Environment
Engineers built a model of the Mississippi River basin before computers. The site was next door to a prison of war camp where prisoners were housed during World War II. Sara said that after plenty of testing, they started to see just how accurate this model was proving to be. They match within a tents of feet of recorded data.
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