re: 3 weeks in, and no apparent hope of solving LSU funding crisis.

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well you said that 99% can be attributed to levees. And that's not correct. So.

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If the River had the 1927 levees, would the coast be net eroding or expanding?

If the river had no levees below Belle Chase, would the coast be net eroding or expanding?

If the river had no levees below Venice, would the coast be net eroding or expanding?

The oil companies have certainly made it worse, but none of that would matter if the sediment were making it to the marshes where it belongs. Subsidence in a deltaic system that has been denied annual alluvium can be a real bitch.