Well I'm gonna get a soap box for a second. To give you a lil background I work for an Environmental consulting firm in Baton Rouge. The owner of our company has his hands on the Coast 2050 Plan for LA. Sherwood Gagliano has been working to save LA coastline since 1979 and was part of a diversion project that has more than proven to rebuild and stabilize "dying" marshes. The problem with this is how many Cat 4/5's will we see before 2050?
Ok I said that to somewhat explain this, It is not that the federal government does not want to help save the coast it is that they have so many restrictions on what can be done inside of wetlands. While this is a good thing to keep oil companies from further degredating the coastline it also limits restoration efforts also. The COE will not issue permits, or if they do it can take months, for destroying a small portion of a wetland in order to save 1000 acres/homes.
They are in the works for these plans but hell it has been three years and no real action has taken place to prevent the destruction of homes and property. So I guess we will have to wait until 2050 to have everything completed.
While I understand it is not an overnight fix I still believe that proven methods should be implement along the MS river. If these diversions have worked since the 80's why not put a few more in and allow some of the sediment that the river transports to build subsiding areas up!
Ok with all that being said everyone be safe and hope your homes and property make it out with little to no damage, cept maybe you Curt you really could use a new DOG, not that there is anything wrong with what you have just know how bad you have been wanting one.:2thumbs:
