Mississippi River Concrete Mats

Revetment construction with concrete mats on the mississippi river is unique.

Mississippi river concrete mats.

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. A popular kind of revetment on the mississippi is basically a massive concrete mat in the video above you can. 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. 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 process starts with the smoothing of the bank to a stable slope from the top to well beneath the water surface. Over 360 miles of the river in the new orleans district alone have been revetted. The mississippi river commission is an.