Looks like America’s original Interstate Highway is on the rage again. Expecting the Bonnet Carre Spillway structure to begin opening this Friday to bleed off a few gallons of water to the Lake Ponchartrain watershed.
And there goes the soft shelled crabs industry again this year.
And a lot of other commercial fishing as well!
That’s true and the Mississippi Gulf Coast gets hit pretty hard, too.
Last year the state of Mississippi wanted a bigger say at the table before the Bonnet Carre and other east side diversions were opened. The Corps of Engineers pretty well told them to go piss up a rope and that the Corp would make the how, when, where and how much decisions. In a sugar coated way, of course.
That’s a lot better than having to dynamite the east levees to relieve the stresses on the whole system.
I’m thinking Paul Barnard would probably have more accurate and up to date data on this. He’s pretty much down by the tip of the spear.
