re: Wildlife and Fisheries and Ducks Unlimited have destroyed Rollover Bayou

I'm not saying that isn't true, just wanted to clarify

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they have grown accustomed to catch speckled trout where they used to catch sac a lait. And heaven forbid they have to run more than 5 mins

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Well stated, and the troof

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Lake Maurpas has banks filled with cypress trees that are dying

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Dude, the problems on the Mississippi River side of the state are very different than the issues in lower Vermilion and Calcasieu Parish. There are no levees denying needed sediment to Rockefeller Refuge. Sediment in the Refuge from the use of weirs and dams is actually a growing problem. Generic ideas and approaches to coastal issues can cause real damage in an area which requires a different analysis and approach.

I'll give you another irrelevant example. In New Orleans the way to build sturdy houses is to driving pilings into the ground until you hit something solid. After Katrina there was an influx of New Orleans engineers and builders and evacuee home builders in Lafayette. They wanted their houses built like in Metairie, and so they drove pilings in Lafayette until they hit something solid, and poured their slabs on the pilings. Unfortunately, the hard layer under Lafayette is a layer of expansive clay, which expands when it rains and contracts when it is dry. Those pilings used under homes in River Ranch and other areas of town pushed upward when the clay expanded, upward into the slabs of the houses, and pulled away during dry months. The movement is still tearing those homes apart.

Don't assume that just because blocking out salt water and introducing extra fresh water improves the quality of the coast in the Eastern part of the state, that that same formula is good for the coast in the central part.