A popular kind of revetment on the mississippi is basically a massive concrete mat in the video above you can.
Mississippi river concrete mats.
In the 1800s sudden changes in the river s path altered the fortunes of towns.
Then the concrete mats are placed in the water along the base of the river.
The articulated concrete mattress mat arrives on location by barge from one of the mat casting fields along the river in tennessee arkansas mississippi and louisiana.
An army corps of engineers team was installing new articulated concrete mat material on the east bank of the mississippi river at the new orleans jefferson parish border on monday aug.
Army corps of engineers provides some preventive maintenance on the mississippi river in the form of mat sinking to help protect levees and other ri.
The mississippi river commission is an.
The concrete mats are engineered to keep the river in its place.
Over 360 miles of the river in the new orleans district alone have been revetted.