Beyond Control: The Mississippi River's New Channel to the Gulf of Mexico - Paperbackby James F. Barnett (Author) Beyond Control reveals the Mississippi as a waterway of change, unnaturally confined by ever larger levees and control structures. During the great flood of 1973, the current scoured a hole beneath the main structure near Baton Rouge and enlarged a pre existing football field size crater. That night the Mississippi River nearly changed its course for a shorter and steeper path to the sea. Such a map changing