Baton Rouge water campus helping researchers study Mississippi River

BATON ROUGE - Researchers have a new tool to study Louisiana's coastal communities. The water campus is a model designed to simulate the Mississippi River's depth, sediment, and flow."All we did is we shrunk the river and put it in a building," Rudy Simoneaux of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Agency said.Researchers from LSU's river studies program use the model to analyze issues the coastal wetlands are facing"The masterplan has several sediment diversions," Simoneaux said. "W