re: Judge orders Iberville to stop deployment of AquaDams along Manchac Road

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He is equating two separate issues. Building up in areas that usually hold water when a creek gets high is a real issue. However, building a dam to protect people who built in a bayou or major flood plain is a whole different problem. Maybe that bayou floods more often so there is some slight overlap but that is minuscule to the fact that the person decided to build in a place meant to flood.

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This is the most Louisiana debate I’ve seen in a while.

One side sympathizes with people that built in a swamp and have blocked an entire city uphill from draining into the area. The other sympathizes with the far, far greater number of people who built uphill from the swamp but whose runoff might be slightly expediting the speed said swamp fills up with water.

One problem here is that people built in the swamp in the first place. That’s going to take years to solve. The other is that they installed a temporary barrier to flood their uphill neighbors. That needs to be addressed immediately.