Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2016 1:12:03 GMT
I cannot help but think Leeville may have the best combination of features outside a levee that a seastead incubator would need.
1) It is on a major highway, which runs from the mainland within the levee system to within 6.6 miles of Leeville, thru Leeville, and then 3 miles to a small industrial site, and then 9 miles from Leeville is Port Furchon (a major industrial port), and 16 miles from Leeville there's Grand Isle (residential and waterfront tourist destination).
2) Leeville has large water access to the north, south, east, and west. It's at a crossroads of canals and the Bayou LaFourche river. So many places are locked in to water access only north and south, and boats must go 20 miles to access water east or west. It's almost impossible to go west off the Mississippi River, and only a few canals go east.
3) The area within 2 miles of Leeville is canals between small islands. It has no ocean waves, i do not know if it has tides (but i doubt it). Depending on which way you go, it's 2 miles west or 6 miles east to break out of the small islands into larger water (still shallow and sheltered from the ocean), or 20 miles south on the river to the GOM, or 7 miles north by water to get inside the levee system. The highway crosses over the water on a very high bridge at Leeville, built within the last 10 years. There's no ocean shipping traffic on the water, and few commercial fishing boats.
The downsides are: it's 20 miles to the GOM. There's not much in Leeville (it's all up the highway 7 miles), and the ground is steadily sinking (as it is everywhere in bayou country). Leeville was once a farming community, today there's no farming and no orchards left, or that land itself. In 30 years, the only thing left there may be the highway and any land the owners can keep landfilling. Leeville is lower than Venice is, but then Venice has far more commercial water traffic. It's got to be about wise choices among the tradeoffs.
1) It is on a major highway, which runs from the mainland within the levee system to within 6.6 miles of Leeville, thru Leeville, and then 3 miles to a small industrial site, and then 9 miles from Leeville is Port Furchon (a major industrial port), and 16 miles from Leeville there's Grand Isle (residential and waterfront tourist destination).
2) Leeville has large water access to the north, south, east, and west. It's at a crossroads of canals and the Bayou LaFourche river. So many places are locked in to water access only north and south, and boats must go 20 miles to access water east or west. It's almost impossible to go west off the Mississippi River, and only a few canals go east.
3) The area within 2 miles of Leeville is canals between small islands. It has no ocean waves, i do not know if it has tides (but i doubt it). Depending on which way you go, it's 2 miles west or 6 miles east to break out of the small islands into larger water (still shallow and sheltered from the ocean), or 20 miles south on the river to the GOM, or 7 miles north by water to get inside the levee system. The highway crosses over the water on a very high bridge at Leeville, built within the last 10 years. There's no ocean shipping traffic on the water, and few commercial fishing boats.
The downsides are: it's 20 miles to the GOM. There's not much in Leeville (it's all up the highway 7 miles), and the ground is steadily sinking (as it is everywhere in bayou country). Leeville was once a farming community, today there's no farming and no orchards left, or that land itself. In 30 years, the only thing left there may be the highway and any land the owners can keep landfilling. Leeville is lower than Venice is, but then Venice has far more commercial water traffic. It's got to be about wise choices among the tradeoffs.