Ask The Advocate: What about opening the Morganza Floodway? Pothole patrol?

I live in Riverbend and every year, when the Mississippi River gets this high, the water table rises and our property becomes marshy. What is the problem with opening spillway structures north of Baton Rouge, like the Morganza spillway? I have heard that people built camps and farms in the spillway, …
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