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Originally Posted by rainy_day

ship channel was dug 1926.
we did't need weirs for 50 years.
now it's only thing that will save the marsh
we still loose coastline every year
leave the marshes alone. mother nature willbdo a better job man

Yes, you're right, we do lose coastline every year. Got any idea of how much of that is due to loss of functioning deltas? I can tell you the only place in Louisiana that gains new land every year is the forming atchafalaya delta. Every other place has manmade interference. But that's a whole other discussion. Back to the weirs.

As myself and many others have continuously echoed, the weirs are man's way of making right what man did wrong by dredging that channel. Saltwater super highway. I've got plenty of papers and books that talk about this topic. Some of it interesting, some dreadfully boring, but all informative.

And as duck said, it takes time to see the effects of these things.

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