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Posted on 9/9/14 at 4:13 pm to Hester Carries
Pretty crazy if we could have actually seen it 
Posted on 9/9/14 at 4:17 pm to CarRamrod
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CarRamrod
Tune out the chatter. Most of these people do not have any idea what they are talking about.
Have any of y'all read the Coast 2050 plan?
It calls for:
1) large scale sediment diversions from the river to the marshe.
2) rebuilding barrier islands to help dampen the tidal prism which act to removde sediment from the marshes.
3) increasing the existing BUMP(Beneficial Use of Material Program) USACE program for dredged spoil.
The cost is BILLIONS and the GOAL is NO NET LOSS of land by the year 2050. That means UNDER THE MOST OPTIMAL CONDITIONS (if we began today), we would still lose land for the next 35 years. Then we wold achieve NO NET LOSS, meaning we would lose some here but gain some there.
Aside from thew fact that this will never get done, the facts are we live in an unsustainable environment. Kills me to acknowledge this, but people need to hear it. Move behind levees, or move Norths (above I-12).
Posted on 9/9/14 at 4:18 pm to Sid in Lakeshore
Follow-on post.
Most of these huge expensive projects need to be implemented simultaneously. Implementing one without the other will yield marginal results as the physical prepossess will continue to degrade the newly formed terra firma.
Most of these huge expensive projects need to be implemented simultaneously. Implementing one without the other will yield marginal results as the physical prepossess will continue to degrade the newly formed terra firma.
Posted on 9/9/14 at 4:36 pm to Sid in Lakeshore
it's never going to happen. Settlement patterns preclude allowing the River to ever flow freely again. Just can't have thousands of house flood every few years. Plus industry requires the current river course, and all the dams on the Red and Missou catch most of the former sediment load.
We can certainly do some diversions, but ultimately people may as well get ready to move north.
We can certainly do some diversions, but ultimately people may as well get ready to move north.
Posted on 9/9/14 at 5:27 pm to Bard
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I think what needs to happen is a drastic re-thinking of the levee system from Alexandria southward. Instead of walling up the river, the better option might be to wall up the towns and have more raised roadways. This would be very expensive, but not nearly as expensive as losing almost everything below I-10 over the course of the next 100 or so years.
All of this would require thinking ahead and planning for the long term. We can't do that worth a shite as we only see ahead 4-5 years on average and we are so tragically short sighted. shite, we only pay the lowest bidder for our roadwork.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 8:22 am to Sid in Lakeshore
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Aside from thew fact that this will never get done, the facts are we live in an unsustainable environment. Kills me to acknowledge this, but people need to hear it. Move behind levees, or move Norths (above I-12).
This is truly the reality... and the levees built so far basically means we are all in on protecting current property and exacerbating land loss Lake Borgne, Bayou Biloxi, and Point ala Hache.
Blowing levees is a solution but never will be a reality as far as a plan...
I believe someone alluded to recent funding for continued levee plan. I believe that funding is for levee protection of Church Point and Lafitte communities in Jefferson Parish.
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