Louisiana Coastal Erosion.

preventing more should be the #1 concern.

Take out the levees. The River will repair the damage itself. But New Orleans as well as a lot of the towns in Southeast LA will be no more.

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Take out the levees

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It's been calculated that even if you did this, you could not repair the coast.

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Implementation of projects in the State's coastal master plan may result in no net loss after 20 years
and annual net gain after 30 years.

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I'm as hopeful as anyone that this will be the case, but I'm extremely skeptical that the current plan will yield such results. as someone said before. get rid of levees and let Ole man River do the rest

So how you think that land built in the first place? They tell you that so you keep the levees

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get rid of levees and let Ole man River do the rest

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It's too late for that to work. Coastal erosion is an issue that compounds upon itself. Not only is the land loss increasing, but the rate of land loss is increasing as well. It has already passed the point where returning the natural flow would stop land loss and cause accretion. Would it help slow the land loss? Yes. Would it cause a net gain? No.

Besides, blowing the levee isn't practical or feasible. It's not even really a discussion worth having IMO because it will never be allowed to happen. Targeted diversions at points on the river that have been modeled to show the most potential for sediment deposition is the first thing we should be doing, but even that is almost impossible. So many of the decision that are made regarding the project location selection have little to do with science of whether or not it is the best long-term investment.

I thought that the suit against the oil companies was going to get money to fix this?

Rising Tide and Bayou Farewell are a couple of really good books on the subject. The first is more of a history of how we got here WRT the Mississippi. I think one estimate was around $15B to try and fix the problem. Probably a lot more now. But hey, the big dig in Boston was $14B and our adventures overseas will probably end up costing over $1T, but losing our land and natural resources well, it's just too expensive.

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But New Orleans as well as a lot of the towns in Southeast LA will be no more.

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Perfect


Jk don't get all mad Nola homers

Living in the directly effected area it is something I think about often... espically this time of year.


Can it be fixed? No... Can we try and salvage what we have and try and build land back Yes.

Can we correct the problem entirely Not one bit.