News – The final EIS is available: https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_65b9af6e-3837-11ed-903e-a786ab658b0e.html See also: River Diversion Research Articles The official site: Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion (MBSD) DRAFT Environmental Impact Statement Released for Public Review and Comment Note – in order to make it more difficult for…
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The effect of Mississippi River diversions on oyster production
The Mississippi River diversions are intended to build new land by diverting floodwaters from the river into open water, wetlands there. Since oyster cultivation depends on the oyster beds seeing a narrow salinity range, there is a concern that the diversion…
The Geology and Hydrology of the Mississippi Delta
Master WWW page Ellet, Charles. Report on the overflows of the delta of the Mississippi. AB Hamilton, 1852. Humphreys, A. A., & Abbot, H. L. (1861). Report upon the physics and hydraulics of the Mississippi river: Upon the protection of the alluvial…
Ownership of Submerged Lands in Louisiana
INVENTORY OF STATE LANDS OFFICE OF STATE LANDS DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATION (2018) The state does not have clear title to an estimated 286,467 acres of water bottoms, as private parties also claim ownership of these lands. These “dualclaimed” water bottoms…
Why the Master Plan will not protect Louisiana and what we should do instead
Coastal Louisiana is disappearing into the Gulf of Mexico. While the media focuses on the loss of land, polls of residents indicate that the real concern is the flood risk to the communities, farms, and businesses in southern Louisiana. The Louisiana…
State of the Coast 2016 Research Meeting
Chris McLindon, Causes of Accelerated Wetlands Loss in the Late 20th Century – Southeast Louisiana (2016) Kolker et al. (2011) found a tight coupling between patterns of land loss measured in the Barataria Basin by Couvillion et al. (2011) and…
Small Scale River Diversions
The Louisiana Coastal Restoration Plan proposes to build a small number of large river diversions. Another approach is to create small breaks in the levees to allow overflow into wetlands during floods that more closely resembles natural processes. This would…
Riverbend Sewage Divesion
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Louisiana Governor Jindal Officially Declares Coastal Restoration a Denial of Climate Change
Jindal Katrina Letter August 26, 2015 The President 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President, This week it will be a pleasure to welcome you to the great State of Louisiana and to meet with you in…
NOAA RESTORE Act Science Program – Science Plan
NOAA RESTORE Act Science Program – Science Plan (2015) This is mostly vague generalities, but there is a pointed criticism of diversions on page 20: The impacts of diversions must be vigorously studied before actions are taken. For example, redistribution…
River Diversion Research Articles
The Changing Course competition for alternatives to the Master Plan It is interesting that none of the reports by the teams were published by Changing Course groups. This is the one I was able to find: A DELTA FOR ALL:…
Stupid Coastal Restoration Schemes
The land is subsiding and the ocean is rising. Let’s fix this by putting heavy stuff on the bottom of the ocean. http://wwno.org/post/restoring-coast-creating-oyster-beds-st-bernard-parish Maybe we can fix it by building a dam in front of the marsh: http://www.djc.com/news/en/12070163.html Sewage diversions –…
Caernarvon Freshwater Diversion
Caernavron Diversion Location Feasibility Report on Freshwater Diversion·to Barataria and Breton Sound Basins, June 1984. Feasibility Report on Freshwater Diversion·to Barataria and Breton Sound Basins, August 1984. Feasibility Report on Freshwater Diversion·to Barataria and Breton Sound Basins, September 1984. C19840314-Sediment…
Corps solicits comments on mid-Barataria diversion
Solicitation for comments – mid-Barataria diversion
Why Coastal Restoration Cannot Succeed
This article goes to the heart of the problem. Sea level rise pushes the wetlands inland. If you have barriers, the wetlands drown. The only thing the coastal restoration folks care about is building levees, but if they only push…
Louisiana Coastal Restoration Plans
Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority The Plans Decision-making chronology for the lake Pontchartrain & vicinity hurricane protection project Van Beek, Johannes L. “Recommendations for freshwater diversion to Louisiana estuaries east of the Mississippi River.” (1982). Van Beek, Johannes L.,…
West Bay Diversion and Shoaling
Westbay Diversion Final Report: Sharp, J.A., Little, C.D., Brown, G.L., Pratt, T.C., Heath, R.E., Hubbard, L.C., Pinkard, F., Martin, S.K., Clifton, N.D., Perkey, D.W. and Ganesh, N.B., 2013. West Bay sediment diversion effects. One of the more well known projects…
Public Relations for Diversions 101
Answering 10 Fundamental Questions about the Mississippi River Delta (original link) This is one of many reports advocating for river diversions. The basic claim is simple: Diversions will have impacts on vegetation, particularly on the distribution of some plant species. However,…
NOAA views on potential environmental risks of Louisiana Coastal Restoration Plan
NOAA views on potential environmental risks of Louisiana Coastal Restoration Plan “NMFS supports efforts to ameliorate coastal wetland loss in Louisiana to maintain socio economic, storm protection, and ecological services these habitats provide. Most coastal restoration efforts can benefit nursery…
The CPRA case for diversions and levees
The Use of Mississippi River Sediment for Restoration Projects in Louisiana – Russ J. Joffrion, PE, Engineer Manager, Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Engineering Division Implications of Sea Level Rise: Case Study on the East Land Bridge Dennis Lambert, PE, Area…
Mississippi River Freshwater Diversions in Southern Louisiana – 2012
Teal, J.M., R. Best, J. Caffrey, C.S. Hopkinson, K.L. McKee, J.T. Morris, S. Newman and B. Orem. 2012. Mississippi River Freshwater Diversions in Southern Louisiana: Effects on Wetland Vegetation, Soils, and Elevation. Edited by A.J. Lewitus, M. Croom, T. Davison,…
Flood Control Act of 1965
Flood Control Act of 1965
West Point a la Hache Freshwater Diversion
West Point a la Hache Freshwater Diversion Department of the Army Permits, Oct. 31, 1992.
Friends of the Everglades 2009
Friends of the Everglades v. South Florida Water Management District, 570 F.3d 1210 (11th Cir. 2009), cert. denied, 131 S. Ct. 643 (2010). Petition for certiorari Brief for United States Sugar Corporation in opposition Brief for the United States in opposition…
The Tulloch Rule
The Tulloch Cases and rule deal with the redeposition of dredged material. Tulloch II – The decision on remand of Tulloch I Tulloch chronology thru 2001 Tulloch_Conforming_Q-As – EPA’s modification of the rule based on the cases. The EPA stepped back to…
Louisiana DEQ Wetland Assimilation Projects
http://www.deq.louisiana.gov/portal/DIVISIONS/WaterPermits/WetlandAssimilationProjects.aspx
Hammond Wetland Wastewater Assimilation Project – Sewage Diversion
This project dumps partially treated sewage into the wetlands. The rationale is that this sewage will build new wetlands. The reality is that it saves fixing the treatment plant and is destroying the wetlands. Hammond-WW-Attainability-5-01-05 Consultant’s report justifying the project. 2005…
Diversion Related Documents
Diversion Related Projects
City of Hammond Discharge Permit
City of Hammond AI 19578 Discharge Permit
Old River Control Structure
This is the gate on the Mississippi/Red River confluence that is the source of the Achafalaya River. At the moment it is flowing at nearly 300,000 CPS. This is as much as Morganza with all the bays open, and three…