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39 million short tons

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that's like 30 million cubic yards. For reference, the Corps dredges around 8-12 million cubic yards to keep the crossings between Baton Rouge and New Orleans navigable each year...so it would be like 3-4 years' worth equivalent dredging. They would need to phase it since they would disturbance dredge and dump the sand back into the water column in deeper water. They also would have a compounding effect of needing to dredge the same sand once it makes it down to the crossings south of Baton Rouge. So, not cheap, but pretty feasible engineering-wise if you phased it over something like 5+ years.

I dont really feel too bad for landowners bitching about loss of bottomland hardwoods on the batture...those were crazy high river years, an act of nature, shite happens and your land is in a floodway.

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So, yet another coach LSU needs to fire?

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Not by a long shot, if you look up what Fogleman has done with the team he’s a gem and one to watch in the near future for big things.

Cant speak to other states, but for Louisiana specifically, we have no recent studies or estimates on what our state water budget is, and thus, have no real way of knowing if data center proposals are going to overdraw a particular aquifer or not. We also dont have any state water law beyond the same governing laws for say, O&G extraction, which are that if you can tap into it, you can take it. We have no state laws governing the sale of water as a commodity to others (e.g., Texas trying to tap into the Sabine/Toledo Bend).

I am a pretty conservative person, but the engineer in me has some pause on whether letting things go gangbusters is the best idea until we know what our water budget even is. People think "oh it is Louisiana, we have so much water everywhere" but that really isnt the case and the public often confuses episodic nuisance surface water events (floods) with the continuous draws of ground or streamflow for industry and agriculture. Farmers and industry across the Sparta, Chicot, and Southern Hills aquifers are drilling wells deeper and deeper; BR has had a myriad of issues with the Capitol Area Groundwater Commission fights just to monitor withdrawals.

If we have the water, great, but it would be safe to do some reconnaissance first before we promise everything to every data center.

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Deep Gras Friday

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This is the dumbest fricking term.
Typical transplant and poser speak.
You should be ashamed.

NOPD states no officers injured or police property damaged

The conjecture that this may be overblown or making an example by city/cops could well be true given as time goes on things are being walked back and no footage exists of whatever the issue was. Krewe is probably playing it safe by keeping statements to a minimum to stay on good side of city parade permits and cops. Was someone on float probably being a shithead? Sure. Was a whole float targeting cops and minority children and all the mentions of felony battery and damage to official property made by police unions, AGs, Mayor, Lt Gov, and a US Senator accurate? Bit of an overreaction and social media snowball effect I’d say.

At this point, more mechanical intervention to dredge the sand and silt stuck behind Missouri River dams annually and send it downstream could help mend some of the bed transport and geomorphology issues but it’s like adding a pacemaker versus a healthy heart. The river at this point is like the Borg where it’s more machine than natural and to fix the machine, more machinery is needed short of ripping all the machinery out.

The video doesn’t mention the huge drought part…oversight by the AI that made it, but the general premise of humans having jacked up the entire behavior and ecosystem of the river and the inter dependencies of sediment dynamics, flow, geology, and groundwater response as well as the economic responses and agricultural responses arent wrong.

I remember looking at the St Francisville gage hourly readings during that drought and you could see a faint tidal signal…from the Gulf. There are roughly 260 river miles between that gage and Head of Passes and then another 18 to the mouth of Southwest Pass at the Gulf and the river was only 3-4 ft higher here than at Southwest Pass. Incredibly flat, nearly slack water at that point.

Yes

I am rooting for them since LSU not in but I truly felt bad for them. I looked on the secondary websites since I had nothing to do yesterday evening: as of yesterday morning there were tons of tickets for sale for less than $25. Seats empty in their downsized tiny stadium in TV. Their own people don’t care. I’d venture to say the amount of LSU fans wishing Tulane good will outsized their own dedicated fan base.

“Tell me about your dream mosque”

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2025 National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. Twice in the last five years.

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Aloysius has had 2 blue ribbons for awhile, plus that entire program is ending so all the blue ribbons will soon be pointless.

Just another subsonic drone. This one was too high-end and lost the first round of collaborative wingman to other contractors’ cheaper, less stealthy, less survivable options. They just repackaged it to have a press release. Hasn’t even flown yet per their claim.

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