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re: Darlington Reservoir
Posted on 8/16/16 at 10:43 pm to Martini
Posted on 8/16/16 at 10:43 pm to Martini
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If I remember correctly Edwin Edwards bought up a bunch of land up there looking to cash in when the resovoir was built. Word got out and that created a bunch of opposition because folks could only see the corruption and not the benefits of the resovoir. It was a long time ago so I could be wrong
This is pretty accurate although it involved a bunch of his cronies and shell companies. They bought or were trying to buy the propert that would surround it.
God, he was such an unbelievably overarching piece of shite.
Posted on 8/17/16 at 6:04 am to Y.A. Tittle
So this essentially would have been like having a Toledo Bend 30-45 minutes from BR?
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