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re: New Study - South LA is not going to be around much longer.
Posted on 5/5/26 at 7:49 pm to TSmith
Posted on 5/5/26 at 7:49 pm to TSmith
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With the lack of understanding and leadership on this issue, the battle is already lost.
It's not for lack of understanding. All the parties involved understand the why; it basically a trade off for essentially the "greater good". Unfortunately, there is no right answer that will appease everyone and everyone is positively and negatively affected regardless of choice.
In order to save the wetlands you have to remove the levees or go with major diversion projects.
I'm guessing no one that lives within the Mississippi River's natural flood plain would appreciate their house flooding every year or so.
Diversion projects are a no go because introducing fresh water to the system will destroy the very same seafood industry that we are trying to protect. You also kill the recreational fishing industry that pumps a gazillion dollars a year into the Grand Isle economy. By the way all the camp in the marsh you mentioned earlier have been replaced by the multi million dollar camps that covers basically every habitable sf of the island. No one wants a camp in the middle of the marsh anymore.
If you let the levees go and the MS river alters its course then you will essentially lose Morgan city and the surrounding areas due to rising waters unless of course you build levees but what could go wrong there.
Oh yeah all that mud a silt will fill up the Atchafalya basin . . . so much for that crawfish industry.
Then the current path of the Mississippi will eventually be inundated with salt water driving away another staple of S LA: drinking water for river parish communities while killing the petrochemical industry.
Since you questioned the leadership, which option are you going to take and which group of voters will you upset? Or, will you be like the rest and do nothing because essentially nothing negative will happen on your watch and you can kick the can down the road and make it the next guys problem.
This post was edited on 5/5/26 at 7:57 pm
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Posted on 5/5/26 at 7:52 pm to armytiger96
quote:Sounds like we need to sue Exxon and BP.
It's not for lack of understanding. All the parties involved understand the why; it basically a trade off for essentially the "greater good". Unfortunately, there is no right answer that will appease everyone and everyone is positively and negatively affected regardless of choice. In order to save the wetlands you have to remove the levees or go with major diversion projects. I'm guessing no one that lives within the Mississippi River's natural flood plain would appreciate their house flooding every year or so. Diversion projects are a no go because introducing fresh water to the system will destroy the very same seafood industry that we are trying to protect. You also kill the recreational fishing industry that pumps If you let the levees go and the MS river alters its course then you will essentially lose Morgan city and the surrounding areas due to rising waters unless of course you build levees but what could go wrong there. Oh yeah all that mud a silt will fill up the Atchafalya basin . . . so much for that crawfish industry. Then the current path of the Mississippi will eventually be inundated with salt water driving away another staple of S LA drinking water for river parish communities while killing the petrochemical industry. Since you questioned the leadership, which option are you going to take and which group of voters will you upset? Or, will you be like the rest and do nothing because essentially nothing negative will happen on your watch and you can kick the can down the road and make it the next guys problem.
Posted on 5/5/26 at 8:02 pm to White Bear
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Sounds like we need to sue Exxon and BP.
I assume your comments are sarcasm . . . They are often the scape goat for coastal problem but the reality is the levees are the real problem. Had the levees not been built the pipeline canals would have naturally filled in with silt from the MS River.
Erosion is not what is killing our wetlands its subsidence.
If you are going to sue someone it should be the USACE who built the levees but they only build what Congress authorizes so I guess we have to sue the same politicians that we have elected to fix the problem.
This post was edited on 5/5/26 at 8:06 pm
Posted on 5/5/26 at 8:18 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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Why would you not essentially condemn those areas for new construction knowing that it will happen again at some point? Did they at least change the building codes to mandate every home be raised?
Because that would have been the death blow to one of America's "greatest treasures." Yes, there were tons of tax payer funded grants to raise them.
This post was edited on 5/5/26 at 9:04 pm
Posted on 5/5/26 at 8:27 pm to Hobie101
Sounds like someone is trying to create a cushy government job of indeterminate length.
Posted on 5/5/26 at 9:01 pm to TheHarahanian
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Fun fact: much of the Netherlands should have been underwater for a very long time.
Fun fact is they also over designed and spent incredible amounts of money for their infrastructure. They are the extreme opposite of do nothing.
Posted on 5/5/26 at 10:44 pm to tonydtigr
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If Elon is buying up massive amounts of land in south Louisiana, then I'm calling bullshite on this "study"
SW Louisiana
Different geology
Posted on 5/6/26 at 12:17 pm to armytiger96
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Since you questioned the leadership, which option are you going to take and which group of voters will you upset? Or, will you be like the rest and do nothing because essentially nothing negative will happen on your watch and you can kick the can down the road and make it the next guys problem.
frick the oyster mafia. If I'm choosing, then I would have 100% continued with using the GOMESA funds to build the Mid-Barataria Diversion.
I don't consider it much of a tragedy if the oyster fishers lose their leases that didn't exist 40 years ago. Especially considering there was a massive fund set up to compensate them.
This administration has already shown that they don't actually care about the recreational fishing in coastal LA.
Posted on 5/6/26 at 12:49 pm to cgrand
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the fact that the human race cannot think in geologic timescales is concerning but not surprising
Humans also lock in to the mindset this is the way it was, is, and will be forever.
Posted on 5/6/26 at 1:31 pm to Hobie101
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South LA is not going to be around much longer
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