A developing plan to ship Toledo Bend Reservoir water to Texas is "dead" for now, following months of local and legislative opposition, and won't be back for discussion "any time soon," state authority officials said.

But the officials who considered that deal also didn't rule out the possibility of water sales at some point in the future, even as one Vernon Parish legislator promised this week to try to block them with a bill next spring.

Under the now-sidelined concept, Toledo Bend Reservoir would have supplied 200,000 acre-feet per year from Louisiana's share of water in the lake on the western edge of the state.

A Dallas company had plans to pipe that water potentially hundreds of miles west to growing population centers in Texas, where state officials say 25% of the population co

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