Subject: Re: carter lake
Date: Mar 24, 2001 @ 13:01
Author: barbaria_longa@hotmail.com (barbaria_longa@...)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., michael donner <m@d...> wrote:

oops

ksmone is 2 tps downriver from carter lake

in the morning light

m



> nice one jack

>

> it points up the fact that these oxbow backwater corners are almost as

> common along the missouri as they are along the mississippi

> but maybe not as famous because they are usually much smaller than this &

> dont show up on most maps

>

>

> the ksmone tristate point

> not far upriver from here

> is another good example

>

> it is apparently still in process of moving out of an old slough & back

> into the renovated main channel of the missouri

> but it required 2 interstate compacts to change it

> & i believe it is now still waiting in limbo for federal ratification

>

>

> the armotn tripoint however seems pretty well stuck in its slough

>

> & it is hard to figure why there is revision in one case but not in another

>

> m