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IF the river were to change course...
Posted on 5/12/11 at 2:15 pm
Posted on 5/12/11 at 2:15 pm
What would the effect be?
Would Simmesport become the new New Orleans?
Would the legislature vote to move the capitol to Krotz Springs?
Just doing some idle speculation here.
Would Simmesport become the new New Orleans?
Would the legislature vote to move the capitol to Krotz Springs?
Just doing some idle speculation here.
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Posted on 5/12/11 at 2:17 pm to Bard
I would think it would be cheaper to dredge from the mouth of the AR down to BR/NOLA to keep those docks active even with less flow coming down than it would to relocate the infrastructure. It would also be over one hundred miles shorter of a shipping route.
Posted on 5/12/11 at 2:17 pm to Bard
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Would Simmesport become the new New Orleans?
Would the legislature vote to move the capitol to Krotz Springs?
NOLA last ditch effort would be to legalize all gambling
no, wouldn't move a capitol 30 minutes down the road.
Posted on 5/12/11 at 2:17 pm to Bard
Nicholls State would replace LSU as the state's flagship and immediately be invited to join the SEC.
Posted on 5/12/11 at 2:18 pm to Quidam65
Harvard on the bayou baby 
Posted on 5/12/11 at 2:20 pm to bayoudude
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Harvard under the bayou baby
Fify
Posted on 5/12/11 at 2:20 pm to bayoudude
Krotz Springs - Capital.
Speeding tickets for everyone. I kid. I'm from that area. Not on the speeding tickets part anyway!Hope all this ends well. i have tons of family there!
Speeding tickets for everyone. I kid. I'm from that area. Not on the speeding tickets part anyway!Hope all this ends well. i have tons of family there!
This post was edited on 5/12/11 at 2:25 pm
Posted on 5/12/11 at 2:25 pm to FLObserver
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Krotz Springs - Capital.
They could put the new Capitol building where the old Little Capitol used to be yeeeeeeeears ago.
Posted on 5/12/11 at 2:27 pm to Bard
I-10: gone
Oil and gas pipelines that pass through there are cut.
Water flow along the BR/NO route massively reduced, causing problems with shipping channels, there is a serious problem about there being not a source of freshwater available for both drinking and industries.
Oil and gas pipelines that pass through there are cut.
Water flow along the BR/NO route massively reduced, causing problems with shipping channels, there is a serious problem about there being not a source of freshwater available for both drinking and industries.
Posted on 5/12/11 at 2:29 pm to Volvagia
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serious problem about there being not a source of freshwater available for both drinking and industries
I don't get the drinking water part. I am sure close to 30% of the river would still be rolling down. That should be plenty of flow to keep salt water at bay.
Posted on 5/12/11 at 2:29 pm to bayoudude
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I would think it would be cheaper to dredge from the mouth of the AR down to BR/NOLA to keep those docks active even with less flow coming down than it would to relocate the infrastructure.
You're right. If there were enough flow going down the new channel though, there would definitely be growth along the new course. If it became more viable than the current course, there would eventually be a slow migration to the new river. If anything, I think new businesses not wanting to be as restricted by various city codes would be more likely to move to the new river than to BR or NO.
Posted on 5/12/11 at 2:30 pm to Bard
instead of the little capital(henderson)ex.krotz springs. It would be called in krotz springs."The real Capital"
Posted on 5/12/11 at 2:31 pm to bayoudude
Just repeating what I heard.
That it would be brackish enough to be a problem.
That it would be brackish enough to be a problem.
Posted on 5/12/11 at 2:34 pm to Bard
proabably not the right thread for this question, but how quick would the change be? Everyone is acting like we would wake up to creek, but wouldn't it be more gradual, over years? Give some sort of qualifications for your answer not just a "I heard".
Posted on 5/12/11 at 2:36 pm to fightin tigers
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proabably not the right thread for this question, but how quick would the change be? Everyone is acting like we would wake up to creek, but wouldn't it be more gradual, over years? Give some sort of qualifications for your answer not just a "I heard".
That's a good question, I don't think anyone really knows.
Posted on 5/12/11 at 2:37 pm to fightin tigers
The gradual process started in the early 1900s.
They stopped it with the construction of the ORCS when they saw that it would divert if they didn't do anything.
So while naturally it would be gradual, but now you have a build up of decades of gradual change.
When it goes, it goes.
They stopped it with the construction of the ORCS when they saw that it would divert if they didn't do anything.
So while naturally it would be gradual, but now you have a build up of decades of gradual change.
When it goes, it goes.
Posted on 5/12/11 at 2:39 pm to Volvagia
As it was said on here a week or so ago, if that were to happen, I think the government and the oil cmopanies would spend billions to get it back diverted to its current course of flow.
Posted on 5/12/11 at 2:41 pm to CocomoLSU
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I think the government and the oil cmopanies would spend billions to get it back diverted to its current course of flow.
this
its not impossible
Posted on 5/12/11 at 2:42 pm to CocomoLSU
Probably.
But you have to understand, when you are talking about something like the Mississippi, that is billions on a "maybe."
It is NOT a given it is even possible to immediately revert it in the next couple of years, no matter the amount of resources spent.
But you have to understand, when you are talking about something like the Mississippi, that is billions on a "maybe."
It is NOT a given it is even possible to immediately revert it in the next couple of years, no matter the amount of resources spent.
Posted on 5/12/11 at 2:42 pm to Volvagia
I can't imagine what you would put into the flow that could resist the pressure and divert the water.
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