re: Amite River - Darlington Reservoir

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I think it’s a solid project to add some flexibility to the flood control systems working in tangent with the comite diversion.

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It's government theft of peoples' land for a boondoggle. Nothing more.

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Tynes and others asked why they should be asked to sacrifice land that their families have held for generations and that have rural qualities that would be hard to find elsewhere, all for the benefit of people downstream who bought homes in flood-prone areas that have been overbuilt.

"Bad decisions on those people's part should not change my way of life, my parents' way of life, my wife's, my children's or anything like that," Cornette said.

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What would the reaction be if the CoE decided to use Bayou Manchac as a diversion to route Amite water in to the Mississippi? That's what nature intended this body of water to do? Would folks be so eager to confiscate the land of those along the former Iberville River?