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Did you know....that rice farming in Louisiana was a major cause of levee breaks in the 18th and 19th century? Today most of Louisiana’s rice production is carried out on irrigated lands in the southwestern part of the state, but some early rice plantations were located on the banks of the Mississippi River. Rice planters built flumes that pierced the levee system in order to transport river water into their rice paddies. After repeated levee breaks at or near the flumes, local levee boards pressed the State Board of Engineers to institute strict laws dictating specifications for the construction of flumes. By 1884, the cutting the levees for rice flumes was prohibited by state law.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 17:01:13 +0000

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