Is Coastal Restoration working?

Depends on who you are asking. There is some well documented growth south of Morgan City.

They could knock down all the levees tomorrow and only slow it down, not stop it.

There are too many hands in the cookie jar at this point, plus it's all private property.

There is a steadily growing number of people fishing in Louisiana. Couple that with shrinking public access, something is going to have to give. When you start having people like Biloxi Land Management bullying LDWF into passing laws, a precedent is set that could really screw over a lot of people.

They need to share the blame with land owners and oil and gas companies for digging the exploration and transportation canals.

The master plan is a gigantic screw up, too many people to pay to sit on their arse and document, not enough into projects. They should spend the rest of the money to blow up the auxiliary and old river control structures. The new delta that will be built at the mouth of the Atchafalaya mouth will offset coastal wetland loss.

The bird foot is gone, and if you read into a lil history of it, should never have built out as far into the gulf if it wasn't for the agricultural economy of the 17-early 1900s.

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master plan is a gigantic screw up, too many people to pay to sit on their arse and document, not enough into projects

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I can agree with this to some extent, but you still need a plan to execute something of this magnitude long term.

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if you read into a lil history of it

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I have read more than a lil bit of history on it and there are more than one, two, or three screw ups. But that does not solve the problem we are faced with today.

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you can continue to thank the Corps of Engineers. Calling them short sighted is being nice.

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Do you really know what the hell you are talking about. Fact is, we cannot do anything to stop much less reverse the tide of coastal erosion. Deal with it.

USACE does what it is told to do and given funding to do by the US Congress. Congress answers to the US populace. Blame the US populace.

Yes, Environmental leeches, politicians and connected contractors are getting rich. Working exactly as planned.

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Fact is, we cannot do anything to stop much less reverse the tide of coastal erosion. Deal with it.

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Thank you for saying it for me. Paramount to relocating the Rockies. It's simply beyond us - and has been since the beginning of time. I admire the ambitions and good stewardship, but man...

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I don't disagree that it might be a lost cause, but letting it wash away really is not an option.

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This can't be said enough times. Feels like we are screaming at the top of the mountain... or perhaps the bottom of the gulf...