re: Gating canals in houma area

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Wait. What?

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What are you confused about?

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If you dig a canal through your private property, and it causes massive erosion problems to the public property surrounding it, you're responsible.

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Great, sue them.

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One of the biggest issues besides erosion is the silting in of once public navigable in 1812 waterways caused by these private canals.

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Great, sue them.

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You can not destroy public right of way in an effort to construct your own private canal. That is a major part of this debate.

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No, it's not at all.

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. I don't get your flippant dismissal of that issue.

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It's because you are either dumb as a fricking rock or intellectually dishonest.

There are a myriad of topics at work here, not just a land locked canal outside of a tidal estuary. This topic is not static and appears to have great interest based on the fact this one thread is three days old and counting.

Agree – A canal dug in Louisiana after 1812 in a non-tidal estuary on private property is without question a private canal. I’ve not said anything to the contrary, but I also never clearly defined that.

What gets fuzzy is that same type canal dug in a heavily eroded tidal estuary such as the mash in the greater Houma area, the original area in question. Said marsh has eroded to the point where the canal is nearly indistinguishable from the natural bayou it intersects or the shallow ponds that have been created around it.

There are spits of islands and ridges on both sides of the natural bayou that make up the mostly washed away marsh and old canal, that entire area for a mile or more on either side of the natural bayou is under ownership of a private entity and holds water 24/7/365 in sufficient quantities to float a large bay boat, there are old posted signs, a piling or two here or there and an old bulk head that was used to block the canal, but you can barely get around it.

The above describes the scenario played out in the marshes of Louisiana south of I-10 (like Houma) to the tune of millions of acres. What is the angst of many, is that by the letter of the law, in part by Act 998 of the 1992 regular session, the millions of acres I just described are off limits to the general public. Gate, no gate, posted sign, no posted sign, you are a trespasser if you get outside that one natural bayou even if by accident. It’s creating a potentially serious controversy not really seen in other states or at least on this scale.

I don’t believe the entirety of the topic is just a canal in a random place in Louisiana, to zero in on that one piece of it potentially means ignoring the other pieces at work here possibly over simplifying it to get to a predetermined opinion.

Or maybe some of us are over complicating the matter, I’m not sure of that based on the replies in the now 10 page 3 day old topic. There has to be a happy middle ground out there for the use of the tidal marshes, but gating canals, boycotting diversions or restoration efforts, ignoring out of state rulings, and generally accepting the status quo as the way it will always be IS NOT the answer.

What is the answer, I don’t know…. It will likely be a middle ground.

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That's neither fizzy nor fuzzy.

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Changed

I would have been thoroughly diappointed in you and in myself if you agreed with that entire post.

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Great, sue them.

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Wouldn't that responsibility fall on the state?

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Word on the street is they're driving piles right now at the mouth of the Bob's Slip Canal so you won't be able to get into the Barge Canal anymore..

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you shut your mouth Good god that would suck for us as we use the canals so we don't have to run as far in the intracoastal.

I heard this morning that they are driving pilings near 70 mile but its to moor barges for some sort of pipe extraction. Also, they thought about gating off the Antil Canal to OG, but because of Williams and all the leases, they threw out that idea.

Pretty sure everyones jimmies are rustled because of the Lake Verret gate thing that happened. Troy Landry gated off, blah, blah...so on and so fourth.....Bayou Black is now closed.

The Cenac that owns property around Miners Canal isnt even the same Cenac that blocked off Company Canal in Gheens...

Looka all the rumors, surrounding us everyday.

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Antil Canal

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I was fishing a tournament last weekend and we idled past a fellow fun fishing. He asked if we'd been back there. Told him no and he informed us he had heard a owner put a gate somewhere towards the back. Said he would have it closed during duck season but would open it again once the season was over. Don't know if it's true or not, just what we were told

That's his point. He says our laws lack common sense like the other states.

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why are you citing all that foreign jurisprudence

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Why am I still following this thread? I had to google jurisprudence.