As they were built on the Mississippi River to help protect communities all the way from south east United States around, the New Orleans area, and all the way up to
Des Moines, Iowa and Minneapolis Minnesota. You know, these have been crucial parts of protecting some of these communities.
However, even all the way back into the 1850s Charles Ellett even warned that these dams and these levees could be creating flooding issues in other communities that couldn't necessarily afford these levees and dams. So today that's what we want to discuss. You know, levees and dams are very big and very crucial in areas like
Houston, Texas, St Louis, Missouri, De Moines, Iowa, even parts of
Memphis, Tennessee that are along these rivers.