Posted on Feb 4, 2022
Louisiana’s $2-Billion Gamble: Flood the Land to Save the Coast
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I don't think this is going to work the way they think it will. I can't see how they can successfully mitigate the environmental impact from such a large area. I hope I am wrong. Time will tell. This is very interesting.
Louisiana’s $2-Billion Gamble: Flood the Land to Save the Coast
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He seems to have impressive credentials. I would have to see a lot more of his work before I could say yes or no. :)
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SFC (Join to see)I agree with you...we finally agreed on something Lol :-).
The one "SHORT" statement says the problem was "man-made".
"BATON ROUGE, La.—After Hurricane Ida slammed into the Louisiana coast in August 2021, it took more than 100 lives and cost billions of dollars in damage. To some here, the storm was just one more justification for a desperate measure to preserve the coast by intentionally flooding parts of the state.
“I don't mean to be alarmist about it, but anybody who’s spent any time along our coast, whether you’re fishing, hunting or working, you’ve seen the changes to our coast. We know it's going away,” says Bren Haase, executive director of the state’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA). “I don't think we can be successful without using the tools and the resources in the Mississippi River to help restore our coast.”...
The one "SHORT" statement says the problem was "man-made".
"BATON ROUGE, La.—After Hurricane Ida slammed into the Louisiana coast in August 2021, it took more than 100 lives and cost billions of dollars in damage. To some here, the storm was just one more justification for a desperate measure to preserve the coast by intentionally flooding parts of the state.
“I don't mean to be alarmist about it, but anybody who’s spent any time along our coast, whether you’re fishing, hunting or working, you’ve seen the changes to our coast. We know it's going away,” says Bren Haase, executive director of the state’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA). “I don't think we can be successful without using the tools and the resources in the Mississippi River to help restore our coast.”...
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They have been fighting the Mississippi River for some time now. Usually mother nature wins. In flood plains I usually have the opinion that we need to move people out and let nature take its course. If we do that, we would probably lose half of New Your City. I digress. Sometimes we need to design flood control measures, when we do it needs to be very carefully done. So many times, I have seen the ACOE just chop off a flood study for a project at a political boundary and say that's the limit of our study. I better shut up now. I can talk about this stuff for days.
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Good article. I believe they did it the responsible way. They basically cleared areas that would already be flooded, improved them, and thereby worked with nature. If I'm not mistaken in the Louisiana, they are sacrificing land that would have stayed dry, to preserve other built up coastal areas. To me that's a hard sell, unless of course you live or have property in the coastal area. There is also a question of design frequency. The farmer's son was thinking wrong about the design frequency saying the storm would cone every 50 years. For convent's sake let's say we are designing for the 100 year storm, all that means is there is a 1% chance "in any given year" that a storm will exceed that frequency. There are no concrete numbers in nature. :)
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SFC (Join to see) - Agreed as to the 100 year storm versus *actual* year-to-year probability. As to the number of *days go by* before Mother Nature returns, no amount on online Dancin’ can say for sure.
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