re: Cancellation of Mid-Barataria Diversion project could cost Louisiana at least $700 million

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ancellation of Mid-Barataria Diversion project

Happy to hear they shut down this waste of time and money.

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The Boat

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look at this guy....


Hey boat... what do you do for a living? because all the people, left and right, who do this for a living cam to the conclusion after decades of research that this is the best way. So tell me what your dissertation was on so we can see if we should take you seriously.

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Happy to hear they shut down this waste of time and money. The state needs to focus on manual land building. They're doing that on other parts of the coast and it works very well. The amount of land created for the cost and time scale is hilariously small.

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You cannot only look at land built. You must also look at the prevention of land loss that would otherwise occur if no diversion were built. Those numbers are in the hundreds of square miles. This is land throughout the basin that would benefit from thin sheet sediment deposition, salinity regulation, etc and goes well beyond just the outfall.

Dredging by itself cannot prevent such loss, so the math and maps you are looking at are not the total picture.