I prefer that solution but driving piles into the middle of the river and fencing it works pretty easily. Look at the roadway they built on that one lake north of NOLA. Same tech.
Since most of the rio is a muddy ditch anyway, just do the Colorado River/SoCal pipeline thing and divert our half.
There are myrad ways to do it. It’s just a matter of will, not engineering.
Surely. I'd love to see it done.. it'd be a proud and awesome thing.
I just never see that addressed when folks holler for a fence.
In fact, I'd bet that.. in Texas anyway.. 90% of broad-brush-fence objections would be removed by consideration of the facts on the ground.
It's a freakin' river. It's OUR freakin' river.
How can you object, from a land usage rights standpoint, to people wanting to not be fenced off from the river that
drives and has driven regional agriculture for decades?
If it were your river I bet you wouldn't want it walled off either.