The Mississippi Highlands Project

Object:

Create subterranean gravity fed aqueduct system designed to absorb 10% more water than has been raised in her largest Flood in the last 100 years using simple arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry and accepted flow rate calculations for water inside a pipe.

Mississippi River - Basic Facts

Begins:  Lake Itasca

Ends: Gulf of Mexico

Length: 2,381 Miles

Flow Rate at Headwaters:  6 cubic feet per second

Flow Rate at Delta:  600,000 cubic feet per second

Speed at Headwaters  1.2 miles per hour

Width at Headwaters:  20-30 feet

Width at Delta:   Almost 1 mile

Rise: 1,475 feet

Run: 12,571,680 feet

Sediment Load Daily: 436,000 Tons  / Day  

Sediment Load Annualy: 159,000,000 Tons / Year

Watershed Area:  1.8 Million Square Miles

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