re: Maurepas Swamp Duck Hunting

The State, LDWF, etc. desperately need to start using Maurepas as an assimilated wetland system. Pipe is cheap, and Baton Rouge/suburbs could all discharge to Maurepas. It would completely save that place. Problem is large scale mechanical plant firms like CH2MHill et al have political pull and fight assimilation at every step.

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Assimilation wetlands lower nutrient and sediment concentrations in point and non-point source discharges (typically secondarily-treated municipal effluent) while benefiting from inputs of freshwater, increased productivity, and enhanced accretion rates.

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