Coastal Master Plan hope for Vermilion Bay?

[wishin i was fishin]

I have been reading the coastal master plan and it looks like they have oyster barrier reefs planned to route the Atchafalaya sediment eastward.

What are yalls opinion on this and the effects on the salinity in the bay? Could we be looking at the bay returning to the days the old timers talk about?

[Smalls]

In another 50 years possibly. This plan will take a while to install fully.

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[MarshRat89]

Sounds promising im also interested in how it will affect the salinity.

[Dink]

Hammock will be blocked off. That sucks

[Montauk17]

Launch a port of st mary....problem solved.

[Duck Butter]

There are some nice oyster reef projects already installed right near SW Pass. Reefblok (copyright symbol inserted here) was the material used. They were installed a few years back and growing oysters very well. A similar project on the bayside of Grand Isle was implemented before the oil spill and the oil stayed off them but they are not growing oysters as well as VBay. The ones in Grand Isle are being hammered by oyster drills.

There is nothing in the CMP that is trying to RAISE salinity in our waters, if anything they are trying to reduce the salinity in our estuaries (fighting an uphill battle).

[outdoorsman]

To me it looks good on paper, but I am by far not a coastal erosion expert. By the time they do studies and what not I doubt that we will never see this completed, our kids and grandkids might.

Also i am not a fan of a levee protection system. Man-made structures such as these only give false hope.

[southLA]

Diversions. Why try to create land when it will create itself....like it has up until 100 years ago

[Smalls]

Originally Posted by southLA

Diversions. Why try to create land when it will create itself....like it has up until 100 years ago

Because the only place land has been created in the last 100 years is at the atchafalaya Delta. Every where else on the coast is either no change or land loss.

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[RickLafayette]

Salinity levels in VB are low due to Marsh Island acting like a barrier as fresh water makes its way from the basin into the bay and is then held there by Marsh Island. It looks like the oyster reefs will further act as barriers, slowing the flushing of fresh water out to the gulf and slowing the entrance of salt water from the gulf.
I don't get it.

[jpeff31787]

that would be cool, but like dink said wouldn't be able to hit the hammock real quick any more...

While we are talking about the bay and reefs, has anyone notice how much Caldwell Reef has changed over the last 2 years! It is moving around like crazy

[Reefman]

I doubt these oyster reefs will be one continuous out-of-water reef. Raising depths from 8-9ft to 3-4ft will drastically help in breaking wave action. As an old timer, all they are doing is replacing the shells reefs that were dredged from marsh island to coon point. Also, years back the Dry reef area from the Hammick to the wells would become visible in hard low tides/strong Northerly winds. At one time that was all land. Again they're replacing what has been destroyed in the bay. I'm all for it, along with replacing the 10ft water mark rock dam (water ceases to flow once the river hits 10ft.) in wax lake canal.

[jopheso]

Im sorry but any time the government has a "Master Plan" of any kind it screws things up. No matter how it looks on paper, no matter how good the intentions, manipulation has always had unforseen consequences.

Maybe this time they will get lucky <shrug>

[cajunkid]

This is a situation of pitting what we like as sports fisherman (salty water close to shore) against what we need. Less salt water close to shore = less erosion. Remember, before the Calcasieu ship channel was dredged, Big Lake was a freshwater estuary.

[capt coonassty]

This is also going to impact the tides inside of the bay. The water that would have gone east on a outgoing tide will be forced through the pass.

[redaddiction]

Originally Posted by capt coonassty

This is also going to impact the tides inside of the bay. The water that would have gone east on a outgoing tide will be forced through the pass.

Can you imagine the speed and force of that tide? wow! It already rips out of there as it is.

[Montauk17]

Way back in the day v bay was fresh too....the banks were lined with cypress trees.

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by cajunkid

This is a situation of pitting what we like as sports fisherman (salty water close to shore) against what we need. Less salt water close to shore = less erosion. Remember, before the Calcasieu ship channel was dredged, Big Lake was a freshwater estuary.

Nail on the head right there. Its cool to be able to drive down the road from Lafayette to catch trout but that is the only good thing that saltwater brings with it is trout, everything else that saltwater does is not good

[vbay]

My uncle-Ted Beaullieu has been working for this for 20 years. He's pushing 90 so I doubt he'll ever see it but ideas have to come from someone/us. his father was one of the first camp owners at The Point. Trying to get things back like it used to be will be an uphill battle for sure.

[speck-chaser]

Originally Posted by Dink

Hammock will be blocked off. That sucks

Just go in from the canal by the camps. Oh wait you got a deep v. nevermind.lol