No, sir; it does not affect where I live at all.
Q.Below the Red River, in Louisiana, is it not a relief in case of an overflow?
-- A.

A partial relief; but in Louisiana, when you get down that far, they pretty much have their system of levees built, which protect the sugar district; there are only probably a few gaps; and the Mississippi River, when it gets that far down, does not rise in the same proportion that it does where I live, 500 miles above.

The mouth of the Atchafalaya is 500 miles below where I am.
Q.Has this increased drainage from the Atchafalaya resulted in any injury to the navigation of the river as far north?
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Not as yet; but if it is not stopped--the commission realize the fact I am now telling you--if it is not checked, the whole Mississippi River will naturally turn through the Atchafalaya, because the fall is so much greater.
Q.How do they propose to check it?
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That is a matter the commission and scientific engineers would have to decide.
Q.Can they block it at the outlet of the Red River?
-- A.