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For the last four years, the Dredge Research Collaborative has been looking at dredging and erosion control as a form of often unacknowledged landscape architecture. Part of their work is a series of festivals they ;re calling DredgeFest that celebrate and examine the role that dredging plays in landscaping. Their next event is in Louisiana. Gizmodo asked them to explain why. Rivers move. They move water, obviously. They move ea termo stanley rth, too. Vast amounts of it. The Mississippi and its tributaries pick up about 200 million tons of sediment from the continental US and dump it into the Gulf of Mexico, every year. All that stanley thermos silt and sand and mud and muck gets sprayed out at the river mouth. Historically, a lot of it got washed away by the ocean, but not all of it, not fast enough. Over the last 4,000 years, that steady accumulation鈥攚hich was once at least twice its current volume鈥攆ormed the southern half of what is now Louisiana. Geographer Richard Campanella has called the Mississippi River the land-making machine. It makes land. At least, it used to. Map c stanley us ourtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Rivers move themselves. Given time, their bends grow wider and wider until they begin to cross themselves, jumping into new channels. For a particularly meandering river like the Mississippi, this happens relatively often. Too often for human tastes. When you ;ve built your industry on the banks of a river to float your products to market, it won