Down a gravel road — through pine trees and past rusting hulks of equipment — fish occasionally jump in a tranquil pond amid the creaking of insects.
Just south of the small community of Coleman Town, this pond in St. Helena Parish along the Amite River was once an old sand-and-gravel pit.
Now it might soon be the first piece in a natural workaround to a controversial 26,000-acre reservoir known as the Darlington Dry Dam, first proposed decades ago after catastrophic floods…