re: Cancellation of Mid-Barataria Diversion project could cost Louisiana at least $700 million

Should have just used this money to build ring levees around the population centers of Plaquemines Parish - of which there are few left - and just removed the levees in the remaining areas. Elevated Hwy 23 over these areas, and allowed the river to begin doing what it had done for millennia, without the need to build any diversion structures, per se.