re: Bayou Manchac clogged far worse than thought.

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If its that bad, seems like they could’ve seen it with sonar pretty easily

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You can see anything still in high def 3d...

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Here's the real kicker, the manchac is a protected scenic waterway. It cannot be cleaned or drug or anything without a permit from the corps. A few years back, the parish cleared a tree that fell and was blocking the channel. They just removed the tree without doing anything else and they got fined.

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Yep, government ruins everything it touches.

Not S#!t, evidently
Fire them, but sue the parish? That’s me.

Maybe said already but isn't there a law that prevented clearing the bayou because it's a historical waterway or some shite?

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He may not be the best public works official in america, but he's definitely the best around here. There's a reason people keep hiring him to come back out of retirement

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My Dad wrote him a letter one time and he answered it personally. Dad mentioned it every time we see/hear Fred Raiford.

I really don’t know what the issue is with Raiford. Is it the state bid process or what? People keep telling me he’s a good guy, but JFC, this stuff isn’t complicated. Knock out the “low hanging fruit” areas and work out. There’s going to be a buffer zone along waterways, trees are going to fall. Get what you can and circle back on maintenance program. They neglected it for far too long.

People that build in swamps and complain about floods are no better than Ethiopians trying to farm in desert and beg for foreign food.

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Here's the real kicker, the manchac is a protected scenic waterway. It cannot be cleaned or drug or anything without a permit from the corps

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Drive down the road that runs along Manchac from Bayou Paul to old Perkins and tell me the portion from Alligator Bayou west is a scenic waterway. Property owners have put in drainage culverts and have driveways across the bayou now. Much of the bayou is overgrown and there’s no running water if any consequence. They have let Manchac decay.

100%

It’s a government and citizenry issue.

Eta: always is

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Here's the real kicker, the manchac is a protected scenic waterway. It cannot be cleaned or drug or anything without a permit from the corps. A few years back, the parish cleared a tree that fell and was blocking the channel. They just removed the tree without doing anything else and they got fined.

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By making Manchac a protected scenic waterway may be what kills it.
Not maintaining it as a waterway allows the dead fall to accumulate choking the flow off. When there is no flow, or current, it silts up and ultimately becomes a lifeless quagmire. My grandfather used to tell us of a Bayou Manchac was one that you could run an outboard from almost La. 30 to the Amite River and that he fished in. Now it is a dead drainage ditch the stinks of sewerage (cloaca).

That 'status ' must be removed and Manchac must be widened by at 3 times its' present average width.