Thread: Scenic rivers

Way back when I was a young man they had proposed a reservoir up around Clinton, LA, but it never came to be... I wanted to buy a lot and build a home there...

Originally Posted by CliffordN

Way back when I was a young man they had proposed a reservoir up around Clinton, LA, but it never came to be... I wanted to buy a lot and build a home there...

Some of these diversions are likely needed, but what takes them so long to get going is figuring out where to put them (in other words, who gets to make the $ from it). There is BIG BIG money in this. If you own the land near the diversion, you are set for life. The swamp land you own will now be high ground and worth tons of money. Houses will pop up on them left and right (see Blind River for example)

As far as reservoirs, we have enough groundwater in Louisiana where we dont need any more reservoirs. How in the world a politician can convince the state that we need to spend a bunch of money to build a reservoir under the disguise of economic development to a region known as "poverty" point is beyond me. And better yet, how they can sleep at night knowing they put the screws to the taxpayers by buying up the land all around the reservoir ahead of time. If that isn't inside knowledge, I dont know what is.

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