Bob Ackley -> Joe Bruchis wrote:

 BA> The same is true for the Missouri River.  Here the river basin is nearly
 BA> five miles wide but the river itself is only about 100-200 yards wide.
 BA> It used to meander all over the basin, and the channel moved quite a
 BA> bit - it still changes (slowly) down in the southeastern corner of Nebraska
 BA> with a process known as 'accretion.'  Accretion happens when silt is
 BA> dropped
 BA> at the inside of a curve and eroded away from the outside; the riverbed
 BA> moves
 BA> ever so slowly.

Rivers left alone, provide a lot of new and fertile soil. Most of Southeast
Louisiana was formed from by silt moved in by the River.

 BA> Some landowners down there are being taxed by the counties in both
 BA> states (Nebraska
 BA> and Missouri).  There is or was a Supreme Court case over the problem
 BA> some time
 BA> back, don't know how it came out.  The basic problem is that the
 BA> boundary is
 BA> defined as the center of the river channel and was surveyed as such way
 BA> back when;
 BA> then the center of the channel moved and the survey didn't...

There's nothing like fair and equitable taxation. :-)
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Regards,

-= Joe =-

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