At the center’s center is a 1:6,000 replica of the delta, from the town of Donaldsonville, in Ascension Parish, to the tip of the Bird’s Foot. The model is made from high-density foam that’s been machined to mimic the region’s topography and all that’s been added to it—the levees, the spillways, the floodwalls. The size of two basketball courts, it’s sturdy enough to stand on.
