Mardi Gras Pass

This is interesting.

The Mississippi River has broken through its eastern bank at the Bohemia Spillway, creating a natural diversion of freshwater and sediment that officials with the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation would like to see continue. The breach is 32 feet wide and 5 feet deep, according to John Lopez, executive director of the foundation, and first broke through on Mardi Gras, prompting the foundation to name the new waterway “Mardi Gras Pass.”

From the looks of this article, it could be beneficial or problematic or both. But since the consensus opinion is that river diversions are going to be necessary to a long term plan to restore the Louisiana wetlands, let's hope for beneficial.