Maurepas Swamp Diversion Project

read this in February:

15 coastal projects approved by Congress in 2007 met different fates

quote:

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Small Diversion at Convent / Blind River — $88 million. Study complete but design suspended by the state, which hopes to renegotiate with the corps to use the authorization for a diversion moving freshwater from the Mississippi into the Maurepas Swamp area.

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https://thelensnola.org/2015/02/18/52403/

Not really. The main detriments to the entire Maurepas basin are a) the cypress clear cut logging b) the interstate, railroads, spoil banks etc that have impounded various portions of the swamp. Cypress saplings need a variation of wet and dry and at the moment, a lot of them just get the wet part. The future West Shore LAke Ponthartrain levee will impound more.

Also, there has been extensive modeling done and it has all shown a small freshwater diversion is all that's needed to freshen most of the southern part of the basin.

Currently, the modeling is under review. Sadly it had taken roughly a decade to study, which is unacceptable.

The chances of returning to the days I've only heard about aren't likely, but if I can go bass fish in Blind River I'm all for it. If there's added benefits even better.

Yeah I'm no scientist or engineer in whatever field that deals with, but I would think you would have to raise the water level up enough to flood the swamp to get that salvinia and fourchette to flow out, which would flood homes and camps in the area. Again, that's just my opinion.

Salvinia, floatant marsh, remnants of logging operations (stumps, logs, limbs), shallow canals and 200 years of sediment build up. Not including the salt water intrusion. Nothing man can do now will restore it to it's hayday in the next three generations. I've killed more ducks than I care to admit in there in the late 80's early 90's.

Waiting on that BP settlement money.


This project is also suspended that would help the area. LINK

Sounds perfect. Turn a shitpile loose in May and they'll all die in November. We can get the benefit without having them multiply and take over.

Problem with the weevils that feed on the salvinia is that they are very susceptible to the cold. Anyone using weevils the last couple of years would have to "restock" area with new weevils to boost the population.

We had that shite in my parents pond, had to drain the while thing and spray weed killer in it. Finally got it under control and the pond is great now.