Why were jetties built at the Port of New Orleans at the end of the 19th century? to regulate water levels and prevent the city’s canals from flooding
to create a pipeline to deliver oil from New Orleans to Baton Rouge
to deepen the channel that connected the city to the Gulf of Mexico
to allow for the drilling and refining of oil in the Gulf of Mexico Why were jetties built at the Port of New Orleans at the end of the 19th century?

to regulate water levels and prevent the city’s canals from flooding
to create a pipeline to deliver oil from New Orleans to Baton Rouge
to deepen the channel that connected the city to the Gulf of Mexico
to allow for the drilling and refining of oil in the Gulf of Mexico