re: Will Mudberg Cause Levees and ORCS to Fail?

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39 million short tons

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that's like 30 million cubic yards. For reference, the Corps dredges around 8-12 million cubic yards to keep the crossings between Baton Rouge and New Orleans navigable each year...so it would be like 3-4 years' worth equivalent dredging. They would need to phase it since they would disturbance dredge and dump the sand back into the water column in deeper water. They also would have a compounding effect of needing to dredge the same sand once it makes it down to the crossings south of Baton Rouge. So, not cheap, but pretty feasible engineering-wise if you phased it over something like 5+ years.

I dont really feel too bad for landowners bitching about loss of bottomland hardwoods on the batture...those were crazy high river years, an act of nature, shite happens and your land is in a floodway.

My view is that thus far the Corps of Engineers has managed to postpone the inevitable because when man fights nature man will eventually lose 100% of the time. The problem as I see it is that we are in too deep to turn back. We must continue to try.

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those were crazy high river years, an act of nature, shite happens and your land is in a floodway.

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Like when a river wants to run the most efficient course?
This is bad money chasing bad decisions, rinse, repeat

The lower river parishes need to start working on that pipe to bring in freshwater for household use.