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A cargo vessel lies docked on the banks of Alden's 1:65 scale model of a section of the Mississippi River. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) Mark Twain called it the "magnificent Mississippi." He said the river "will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise." Garret Dunn is doing his best, anyways. He's in the river on his hands and knees, rebuilding a wall. It's part of a structure called a "sediment diversion," designed to pull water — and a whole lot of sand — out of the river and into Louisiana's Barataria Basin. It's part of Louisiana's big (and controversial)...