[at-l] Frances and Home Destruction

[jbryankramer at msn.com (J Bryan Kramer)]

I thought a lot of the channalization that the Corp had done way upstream
was contributing to the erosion problem since it was starving the delta of
replenishment silt. The Corp has been involved in a lot of disasterous
projects. I don't know if it's their fault or they just do what politicians
ask them to do without question.

As a trivia question do you know what created the delta in the first place?

Bryan

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--> What some people may term 'Coastal Erosion' may simply be mother 
--> nature changing thigs. I never have understood how humans 
--can try to 
--> impress their will on what is NATURAL CHANGE.
--> The location of natural formations today, is NOT where they have
--> always been, nor where they will be when we are gone.
--
--Most of the time I would totally agree.
--
--Unfortunately, the costal erosion in Louisiana is very nearly 
--completely the fault of the Army Corps of Engineers.  If you 
--care to come down here, I can prove it to you easily.  I can 
--show you literally millions of dead cypress trees.  The Corps 
--killed the marsh with the drainage projects in the first half 
--of the 20th century.  They didn't know what they were doing.  
--They thought they were helping.  Oops.  With the marsh dead, 
--there isn't anything left to hold the mud in place, so it 
--washes out.  There really isn't any way to fix it.
--
--Shane
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