[Emperor Palpatine]

"Ten thousand river commissions, with the mines of the world at their back, cannot tame that lawless stream, cannot curb it or confine it, cannot say to it, 'Go here,' or 'Go there,' and make it obey. These West Point engineers cannot succeed in caging the beast. They imagine that they can fetter and handcuff that river and boss him. They might as well bully the comets in their courses and undertake to make them behave, as try to bully the Mississippi into right and reasonable conduct."

-Mark Twain

[Wonder Warthog]

Those "West Point Engineers" have a pretty good track record so far. And we can always hire some engineers from Holland if they aren't enough. Their track record is pretty good as well.

I had occasion to be in Holland on a business trip. My hotel was pretty much "right next door" to one of the North Sea Levees. I thought the levees on the Lower Mississippi were impressive, but those pale by comparison to the Dutch structures.