Ron To a person not from here a bayou and a canal would be the same thing so I really do not fully understand your question.
A bayou is a extremely slow-moving stream or river. A canal is a mad made water way used for drainage or to get boat traffic into a swamp area.
I will have to assume you are using bayou to describe wetland or a swamp area.
Yes there are many canals dug threw out the swamp. It first started with logging. They dug canals to get heavy machinery in and set up a log pull boat. As the trees were cut; they would drag the logs threw the swamp to the canal with a large winch on the pull boat. This carved large spirals into the swamp that you can still see today in aerial photos.
Then came the oil industry. To get large boats in to set up oil rigs they dug many large canals.
Among other things this is what devastated our coast. There is a big law suit going on right now because in the oil company contract it says they would fill in the canals after they were no longer needed. That never happened.
These canals allow salt water in killing fresh water plants and trees. With out the plants wave action and storms erode the land taking our storm protection away. No buffer from storm surge anymore.
A little off topic but still a major contributor to swamp erosion is the practice of putting levees along the Mississippi.
This is a very "hits home" topic for me so I tried to keep it short and sweet to prevent a post poof. If I say what I really think this would go poof.
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