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Originally Posted by BuckingFastard

water would flow so the bait could go where they have been going forever, into the marshes. now they stop it completely where not a dang thing can enter.

100% False. The structures are never 100% closed because of the fish slots. Were you even at the meeting or did you even look at the presentation with the layout of the weirs in it?

yea things change, everything does.

So are you in favor of it converting to open water? Because that is legitimately what is at stake. However you argue it, once the weirs were constructed, the marsh was coming back.

Hey Waltrip, what were your observations about the weirs in 1990-1991?

I have a report right here that indicates less openings that we have seen in the last 3 years. I would estimate the overall percentage of gates open at less than 50%. In fact, the only time that greater than 50% of the weirs were open occurred in February and Mid-March to Mid-April 1990, and from Mid-January to March 1991. From Mid-April to Mid-October 1990, the percentage of gates open was less than 50%. From June to October 1990, the percentage of gates open was less than 25%.

So, maybe this statement,

Small from 1988-2004 marsh was gained while the weirs were open 90% of the time . I can't ever recall in the 90,s of the weirs ever being closed

isn't completely false, but it isn't completely true either. If over the course of 15 months there weren't even 50% of the total gates open, I seriously doubt over the course of 16 years that the entire system was open 90% of the time. The 75% openings you see in early 1990 were reportedly due to high water in the Cameron-Creole. Take that away, and you may not even have 50% total gate openings over that time period.

Of course this is only 15 months of a 16 year time period we are talking about, but I seriously doubt that you could have achieved 90% openings over the course of 16 years (that is approximately 172 months, or 14.4 years).

Now, if what you are saying is that 90% of the time there was at least 1 gate open, then I will agree with you on that. But that isn't what you said.

Also, keep in mind, the figure that Leigh Anne showed was the Boat Bay Openings. My understanding is that the management is in Phase 2. If this is in fact the case, then only the Boat Bay would be left open, unless salinities become to high. This seems to be consistent with what has happened in the last 3 years, without looking at salinity data and fully basing that on the number of days the boat bay has been open.