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Originally posted by redleg2/9:
We live about five miles North of Lake Pontchartrain.

every time we get a week of Southeast winds pushing the water in it goes over my bulkhead. I basically have 300ft on Chef Pass

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Originally posted by snwghst:

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Originally posted by redleg2/9:
We live about five miles North of Lake Pontchartrain.

every time we get a week of Southeast winds pushing the water in it goes over my bulkhead. I basically have 300ft on Chef Pass

We delivered The Advocate in lower Livingston Parish for years. It was had to make the people at the company in BR that it would flood down there without rain. That southeast wind is a bitch.

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Originally posted by SpinZone:
I understand why they are diverting the water, but this is the classic case where one area is being impacted in order to benefit a different area.

Given a choice of messing up some recreation and sea life or saving people, cities and farmland....hmmm....maybe that's why those spillways got built?