re: Mid Barataria Diversion

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There basically is no more East Plaquemines

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land is growing like crazy from Mardi Gras and Neptune passes.

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It just makes more sense to move in a direction that's more natural,

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Which is what the diversion aims to do. Reconnect the Barataria Bay estuary with land building sediment from the river and freshwater influence to restore more natural salinity level that’ll improve vegetation that holds the land together

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But at least the fishing will be good….

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Way too late reply but the fishing would be better with the diversion. That ecosystem, and all the fish that come with it, was built by the river. It builds the habitat for all of the bait that the fish we like to catch feeds on.

Even accounting for corruption, I cannot see any reason why this diversion shouldn't happen. Is it just that Landry and Nungesser are worried their camps won't have direct access to the water?

There's no way a handful of oystermen have this much influence over the entirety of Southeast Louisiana.

I don’t know the science.

I DO know some of the people involved in the project.

Knowing those people makes me highly skeptical of the project.

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Dredging was not studied in the EIS

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EIS excerpts from Section 2, Alternatives.

Dredging : Alternatives Table 2.3.1 see page 2-15.

" Moreover, this method would not mimic the natural deltaic processes through repeated inputs of sediment, fresh water, and nutrients during times of high river flow, but instead would involve the removal of riverbed or nearshore sediment material by a dredge for transport, as a slurry via pipeline, and disposal into a mechanically created cell to a target elevation. These activities could occur at times outside of high historical inputs (such as Spring Floods".

Section 2.3.5 Large Scale Marsh Creation - page 2-18

" Large-scale marsh creation projects in the Barataria Basin would involve dredging and movement of sediment from offshore or nearshore bodies of water, such as bayous, lakes, or canals, or from point bars in the Mississippi River, typically via hydraulic dredging and transporting dredged sediment via pipeline to specified locations within the basin for the purpose of replacing, creating, or maintaining eroded or subsided wetlands."

Dredging discussion as an Alternative ends on page 2-22.

USCOE EIS

You obviously disagree but it was considered and discarded in the EIS as not a viable, long term solution. I look forward to your revised definition of the word "studied."

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fiversion

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What’s a fiversion?