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Amite River dredging to begin next year
Posted on 8/21/26 at 6:50 pm
Posted on 8/21/26 at 6:50 pm
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The last time it was dredged was in the 50s!
It seems like a lot of work will be ongoing ten years after the great flood, these projects make a lot of sense. I guess this can be a thread about floodwater mitigation too.
The last time it was dredged was in the 50s!
It seems like a lot of work will be ongoing ten years after the great flood, these projects make a lot of sense. I guess this can be a thread about floodwater mitigation too.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 7:02 pm to The Cool No 9
Never be ready in time.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 7:03 pm to The Cool No 9
Probably getting it ready for a data center
Posted on 8/21/26 at 7:03 pm to Jim Rockford
Hahahahahahaha
Great one Jim
Great one Jim
Posted on 8/21/26 at 7:09 pm to The Cool No 9
The weir was designed to send water down the Amite River but it failed and 80% of the water goes down the diversion canal instead. The lower Amite River is silted in and stagnant and as shallow as 4 feet while the diversional canal is 30 feet deep. The lower Amite is a mini-old river control structure failure that no one notices. Of course this dredging is only for a tiny stretch from Lake Maurepas to highway 22. The long stretch from highway 22 to the diversional canal isn't funded.. which means good luck.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 7:14 pm to The Boat
So it's the first. phase from 22 to Maurepas that's funded for $20 MM.. That should help though right? If any stretch of river is clogged up it needs to be cleared out.
BTW how's the Comite diversion going? I thought I read something positive was moving on that too.
BTW how's the Comite diversion going? I thought I read something positive was moving on that too.
This post was edited on 8/21/26 at 7:15 pm
Posted on 8/21/26 at 7:46 pm to The Cool No 9
What I’m still searching my head over is how is St. John able to build a flood wall across the whole parish just about to block surge from the lake by diverting it elsewhere. I get wanting to protect your area but how do you have the right to just Chanel it up the road. The water has to go somewhere.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 7:58 pm to The Boat
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The weir was designed to send water down the Amite River but it failed and 80% of the water goes down the diversion canal instead.
Never knew why that was installed. Cool.
How does dredging work on a river that doesn't really flow? Just a long arse hose out into the lake? Or some other low area?
Posted on 8/21/26 at 7:59 pm to coonass27
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What I’m still searching my head over is how is St. John able to build a flood wall across the whole parish just about to block surge from the lake by diverting it elsewhere. I get wanting to protect your area but how do you have the right to just Chanel it up the road. The water has to go somewhere.
Think it was St Tammany that walled up first and flooded St John.
At this point it might actually be cheaper to have pooled the money and built a wall across the rigolets.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 8:03 pm to fightin tigers
I kind of wondered the same and just stop it further east but IDK. Just crazy
Posted on 8/21/26 at 8:04 pm to The Cool No 9
Will provide no benefit beyond navigability of that stretch of the river
Posted on 8/21/26 at 8:05 pm to The Boat
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The weir was designed to send water down the Amite River but it failed and 80% of the water goes down the diversion canal instead.
This is not true, though. That's a huge misconception.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 8:15 pm to Shimoda
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This is not true, though. That's a huge misconception.
I am pretty sure one of the original design objectives was proportionate flow splitting the flow unequally.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 8:15 pm to The Cool No 9
Good.
Amite River Commission finally doing something with that $10 million they got a couple years back, other than drawing fat salaries...
Amite River Commission finally doing something with that $10 million they got a couple years back, other than drawing fat salaries...
This post was edited on 8/21/26 at 8:16 pm
Posted on 8/21/26 at 8:53 pm to The Cool No 9
I thought all this climate change was just going to effect famine and drought.
Why then would we worry about flood mitigation?
Why then would we worry about flood mitigation?
Posted on 8/21/26 at 9:43 pm to fightin tigers
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How does dredging work on a river that doesn't really flow? Just a long arse hose out into the lake? Or some other low area?
That’d be my guess, if they’re using a pipeline dredge. Pump to a disposal area on top bank somewhere or out to the lake.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 9:54 pm to The Cool No 9
Why keep dredging this topic up?
Posted on 8/21/26 at 9:59 pm to Portballs
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Good. Amite River Commission finally doing something with that $10 million they got a couple years back, other than drawing fat salaries...
You need to add a zero to that. The commission itself has no employees other than an advisor and secretary. The rest are appointed by the governor.
Anyway, it’s been 30 years of doing nothing. Glad that Paul Sawyer is getting things done.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 10:05 pm to The Cool No 9
They finished Laurel Ridge so anythings possible, I guess. They were talking about that since before I was born
Posted on 8/21/26 at 10:08 pm to The Cool No 9
It seems like any job like this turns into nothing but a big waste of money and resources.
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