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There were no open bodies of water like you see now, until you got to Barataria Bay. And now here we are, fifty, sixty years later, nothing's alive other than the trees that we've planted in our yards.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              COASTAL RESIDENTS LIKE BOUDREAUX KNOW ALL TOO WELL THE DEAD TREES ARE A FATAL SIGN THE SALTY WATERS OF THE GULF OF MEXICO HAVE CREPT IN.\u003cbr/\u003e              SOUNDBITE (English) Clay Boudreaux, Lake Hermitage Resident:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Saltwater has gotten in them to point where it's not surviving.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              BUT HELP MAY SOON BE ON THE WAY.\u003cbr/\u003e              USING A MASSIVE RIVER MODEL LARGER THAN A BASKETBALL COURT, SCIENTISTS ARE GETTING AN IDEA OF WHERE TO DIVERT NUTRIENT-RICH RIVER WATER INTO LOUISIANA'S MARSHES – TO BEGIN THE PROCESS OF RESTORING RAPIDLY-ERODING ESTUARIES LIKE LAKE HERMITAGE. \u003cbr/\u003e              SOUNDBITE (English) Clint Willson, Director of the LSU Center for River Studies:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Not only can we model the flows and the water stages of the water levels in the Mississippi River, we can also model or simulate the transport or the movement of the Mississippi River sand down the river. And we can do all of that in roughly one hour to replicate one year on the river.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              THE HIGH-TECH MODEL - MADE OF HIGH DENSITY FOAM PANELS – REPLICATES EVERY DIP AND TURN OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER.\u003cbr/\u003e                \u003cbr/\u003e              IT TOOK MORE THAN A YEAR TO CONSTRUCT WITH A PRICE TAG OF ABOUT FOUR-MILLION-DOLLARS.\u003cbr/\u003e              RESEARCHERS SAY THE INVESTMENT HAS ALREADY PROVED INVALUABLE – GIVING THEM THE TOOLS TO START REVERSING LOUISIANA'S LAND LOSS WHILE HELPING OTHERS AROUND THE WORLD.\u003cbr/\u003e              SOUNDBITE (English) Rudy Simoneaux/Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We've had folks from China. We've had folks from Bangladesh, who have a major river flooding problem in their nation, and they're looking at ways into living and working with the river.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              THEY'RE ALSO LEARNING WHAT \"NOT\" TO DO.\u003cbr/\u003e              SOUNDBITE (English) Rudy Simoneaux/Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"There's an important lesson to not levee a system like this because it could have long-term consequences, and there's no better place to look at that than Louisiana.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              THE MODEL WILL BE USED WITH EXISTING COMPUTER DATA TO HELP ISOLATE SITES FOR PLANNED SEDIMENT DIVERSIONS – SUCH AS THE MID-BARATARIA DIVERSION NOT FAR FROM LAKE HERMITAGE.\u003cbr/\u003e              SOUNDBITE (English) Clay Boudreaux, Lake Hermitage Resident:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We're going to see the beginning of the growth of everything like it used to be.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              THOUGH BOUDREAUX KNOWS HE WON'T SEE A FULL RESTORATION IN HIS LIFETIME …\u003cbr/\u003e              HE'S HAPPY KNOWING FUTURE GENERATIONS - JUST MIGHT.\u003cbr/\u003e              STACEY PLAISANCE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS-LAKE HERMITAGE, LOUISIANA\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Lake Hermitage, Louisiana – April 4, 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Various of Lake Hermitage, a 200-year-old fishing village \u003cbr/\u003e              2. Wide dead trees \u003cbr/\u003e              ++ SOT partially covered ++\u003cbr/\u003e              3. SOUNDBITE (English) Clay Boudreaux, lifelong resident of Lake Hermitage: (transcript below)\u003cbr/\u003e              4. Camp surrounded by open water\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Various of Clay Boudreaux in his yard on Lake Hermitage \u003cbr/\u003e              6. Various of dead trees on Lake Hermitage\u003cbr/\u003e              ++ SOT partially covered++\u003cbr/\u003e              7. SOUNDBITE (English) Clay Boudreaux, lifelong resident of Lake Hermitage: (transcript below)\u003cbr/\u003e              8. Wide of birds on patch of grass on Mississippi River near Lake Hermitage\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Baton Rouge, Louisiana – March 16, 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              9. Wide massive river model\u003cbr/\u003e              10. Graduate student doing research with model river\u003cbr/\u003e              11. Various of river model and water pumping to model\u003cbr/\u003e              ++ SOT partially covered++\u003cbr/\u003e              12. SOUNDBITE (English) Clint Willson, LSU Center for River Studies: (transcript below)\u003cbr/\u003e              13. Various of Clint Willson talking about the river model\u003cbr/\u003e              14. Graduate student doing research on river model\u003cbr/\u003e              15. Various of researchers showing features of river model\u003cbr/\u003e              16. SOUNDBITE (English) Rudy Simoneaux/Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority: (transcript below)\u003cbr/\u003e              17. Wide high Mississippi River water that could be diverted\u003cbr/\u003e              ++ SOT partially covered ++\u003cbr/\u003e              18. SOUNDBITE (English) Rudy Simoneaux, Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority: (transcript below)\u003cbr/\u003e              19. Various of river model\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Lake Hermitage, Louisiana – April 4, 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              20. Wide of homes on Lake Hermitage\u003cbr/\u003e              21. SOUNDBITE (English) Clay Boudreaux, Lifelong Resident of Lake Hermitage: (transcript below)\u003cbr/\u003e              22. Wide of Clay Boudreaux in his yard on Lake Hermitage\u003cbr/\u003e              23. Life preserver hanging from dock\u003cbr/\u003e              24. 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