Building barriers: Inside the race to save Louisiana's first line of storm defense

"Where we're standing was nothing but water - 12 feet deep - when we started this," he said, standing in rubber boots next to the gushing pipe.

This is a good, long article about building barrier islands in south louisiana. I'm very interested in the subject so for me this is a must read. I have to say, the above quote is impressive, 12 feet of water turned into land, love it! Need more of this, but I could understand someone saying it's too much money to build back an island at around $60,000 an acre.....

Read the full article here...
https://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/07/building_barriers_louisiana_po.html#incart_river_index