re: Louisiana Scenic Rivers are Under Attack!

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Certain developments in St Tammany shouldn't have happened, particularly in Slidell, but they happened, and drainage is now a serious problem. Mouth of Doubloon Bayou is silting in. Water cannot get out to the Pearl. Something needs to be done. You can't tell thousands of people "too bad."

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A LOT of developments in St. Tammany should not have happened. However, the brain trusts in St. Tammany and every other Florida Parish continue to make the same stupid mistakes and allow development where there should be none; if you live near water, expect flooding. Build on piers or don't build at all. This is the way things used to be done before the federal government came along with the flood insurance program. Now you have people building in swamps or next to rivers then whine and cry when they flood. I can never understand why the plaintiff's bar has never gotten involved in this by either suing developers for bad development or the parish governments for allowing bad development.

The sad irony to this whole situation is we could not replace a trailer house we've had on our property that's been there for 40 years because of the elevation, but houses can be built just a few miles down the road that are literally in the river basin.