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

Back to the Edwards days with Landry

This is the literal most retarded shite ever.

It takes a lot to get any sort of an emotional reaction from me, but this makes me so angry at those fricking idiots down da bayoo

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Houma has the most to lose if Terrebonne Parish stops this!

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Its mostly Plaquemaine.

You know, I dont even know what the issues are but what I do know is that a single parish holding up a 3 billion dollar coastal restoration project and the "leadership" allowing that to fly stinks like holy shite and is the reason why we are 50th in every fricking thing except high blood pressure and bare titties in public.

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The problem is that the "right" design firm and/or contractor did not get the job.

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I don't think that's the issue here. Lt. Gov Nungesser has been adamantly against the diversion and everything CPRA for a long time. He does everything he can to protect the interest of "his people" down the bayou. Even if it means costing massive amounts of money and fighting a project with overwhelming bipartisan support.

The Advocate went a little further on this. Some of the money that the contractor could be owed could be nullified by the fact that the contractor did not apply for the necessary parish permits. But a tit for tat like this only enriches the attorneys representing the state and companies.

The project just needs to be built it is probably one of only ways to naturally move water into the basin.


One idea that was floated in the 1990’s was a conveyance channel that started east of Donaldsonville and roughly paralleled Bayou Lafourche to Valentine where it would split in two where one channel would go to Barataria and the other would go into the Terrebonne basin. The big issue with that one is construction costs to dredge a channel.


One parallel idea I thought of recently would be to build a channel to Lake Des Allemands and add fresh water and sediment from there and create a flow into the basin. It shouldn’t impact oyster fishermen as much unless there are oyster leases that far up the basin. It would be a much larger scale Davis Pond, and levees would need to be constructed along the rim of the lake and Bayou and near places like Chackbay and Pleasure Bend.

On the other hand, anytime it rains a lot the Barataria Bay can get so fresh that the water is fresh enough to drink even as far south as Grand Isle.

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The fricking stupidity of this state man.

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Its beyond anyone who has ever seen things done right comprehension. It really is.

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Some of the money that the contractor could be owed could be nullified by the fact that the contractor did not apply for the necessary parish permits

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They didn't apply for Parish permits because the State told them that they didn't have to. DNR, CPRA, USACE, other federal agencies all signed off on the diversion, which is on State, not Parish land in any case. The whole permit/NFIP thing is just a pretext that Landry, Dove, et al, are trying to now use as an excuse to save themselves from getting the blame for shutting the project down. The State will look moronic if they take that line when the contractor sues over it.

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DNR, CPRA, USACE, other federal agencies all signed off on the diversion, which is on State, not Parish land in any case.

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This is why I'm addicted to this board. Yes, many of us should probably be put in padded rooms, but it seems there's also always a good change one or two posters who chime in could have real knowledge, even directly, with an issue of interest at topic.