Why freshwater solution is short sighted?

It doesn't make sense to try to maintain a portion of a salt basin with a history as a salt basin as old as the island itself as a freshwater basin. The solution, although at first glance seems fair, is creating an area requiring maintenance over time which eventually will flood during a storm event. This is a waste of taxpayer money now and over time (forever in fact), creates a closed system and is interfering with the natural environmental state of that part of the marsh. The freshwater marsh area being brought back to a freshwater state was only fresh for the past 50 or so years. It is really part of the area impacted by the Atlantic Avenue floodgates.

On top of it all...environmentally, a salt marsh is a more productive marsh than a fresh marsh and it is alway better to allow a natural state...as opposed to interfering over time.