CPRA vs Plaquemines Parish

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Plaquemines is lucky we haven't sacrificed it to save the rest of the state. yet.

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If this diversion goes through... that's pretty much what will happen. They may get sacrificed, but it may not save the state.

The saltwater loving species only moved into the area after the land eroded causing the water to become more salty. This will push that brackish wedge back to where it used to be.

Yes, it will erode land in the short term, but will build far more land in the long term.

This is not the same kind of diversion as Carnarvon. Caenarvon was never designed as a sediment diversion, only a water diversion. In fact, it was designed to keep sediment out. This will build far more land because it is designed to divert water AND sediment.

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no, sacrificing Plaquemines mean getting rid of the levees down there.

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Not a popular idea but its probably the only thing that will keep the gulf from reaching all the way to NOLA within a century. Buyout homeowners in lower Plaquemine and tear down the levees south of Myrtle Grove

What needs to happen down there is move everyone out and blow the levees. Only thing that should be down there is O&G, green space ie marsh and commercial and recreational fishing.

No one should be permanently living south of bellchase.

For anyone not a believer in diversions, I would encourage researching the recent (past 150-year) history of the lower Birdsfoot Delta. One doesn’t have to look as far west as Wax Lake for proxies to what the CPRA is trying to achieve. In the 1893 USGS map of Venice easily found online, Baptiste Collete is a tiny ditch leading to an open bay. In roughly 120 years, an entire sub delta lobe of the river was built. Likewise for Cubit’s Gap and the passes stemming from it...Cubit’s gap was a ditch dug by a guy (named Cubit) that exploded into other vast sub delta lobes.

The Plaquemines Parish mafia can argue all they want, but 99% of the engineering and scientific communities have come to the same conclusion that diversions are needed as a key tool for any semblance of a future coastline. But Joe Dirt-vich has already solved these issues while in a meth-induced haze from the helm of his oyster lugger in Bastian Bay and told his budy Amos all about it at Black Velvet, so why does the CPRA bother? Let that Parish fall off the face of the earth and send dollars to other Parishes.

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river water, today, IS NOT CLEAN

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No, it's filled with fertilizer.

I've often wondered if sending that kind of water into a dying watershed would result in added vegetation growth, which is exactly what would help our marshes, instead of creating algae blooms in the Gulf, which does major damage.

I've never seen any study or data on such a scenario, though.

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