re: Bayou Manchac clogged far worse than thought.

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Here's the real kicker, the manchac is a protected scenic waterway. It cannot be cleaned or drug or anything without a permit from the corps. A few years back, the parish cleared a tree that fell and was blocking the channel. They just removed the tree without doing anything else and they got fined.

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By making Manchac a protected scenic waterway may be what kills it.
Not maintaining it as a waterway allows the dead fall to accumulate choking the flow off. When there is no flow, or current, it silts up and ultimately becomes a lifeless quagmire. My grandfather used to tell us of a Bayou Manchac was one that you could run an outboard from almost La. 30 to the Amite River and that he fished in. Now it is a dead drainage ditch the stinks of sewerage (cloaca).

That 'status ' must be removed and Manchac must be widened by at 3 times its' present average width.