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Construction underway on components for permanent Bayou Chene floodgate
July 21, 2020
katc.com, KATC News – Governor John Bel Edwards announced construction is now underway on components of a permanent floodgate on Bayou Chene below Morgan City that will provide flood protection for portions of six parishes.
Coastal officials: Despite alarming research on Louisiana coast, ‘we will never give up’
June 2, 2020
theadvocate.com, Chip Kline and Bren Hasse -- A recently released study by a respected Tulane scientist has brought coastal Louisiana and its rapidly receding coastline back into the national spotlight. We welcome the opportunity to discuss how this research aligns…
The Brown Pelican: A True Success Story
May 13, 2020
WGNO, Rick Erbach - Today Queen Bess Island is a robust 37 acres of nesting paradise for the brown pelican. It’s the fourth largest largest pelican rookery in Louisiana. It produces 15-20 percent of the state’s nesting activity. Thousands of…
Ten years after BP Oil Spill, coastal restoration work thrives
April 21, 2020
wafb.com, Matt Houston - In the next four years, workers will break ground on coastal restoration projects that should produce more land than Louisiana loses to erosion for the first time since the 1930s, the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority says.
Critical pelican nesting ground restored, 10 years after BP oil spill
April 16, 2020
nationalgeographic.com, Rene Ebersole -- Louisiana has lost more than half its brown pelican colonies in the past decade. Using fines from the spill, an important island habitat gets a makeover.
New life comes to a Louisiana island
March 16, 2020
WVUE, John Snell - Queen Bess, which was heavily-oiled during the spill, was actually suffering subsidence and erosion long before the BP’s Macondo oil well erupted in flames in April of 2010. In a calculated gamble, the state attempted a…
A Mini-Mississippi River May Help Save Louisiana’s Vanishing Coast
February 25, 2020
nytimes.com, John Schwartz - We were standing on the levee of the Mississippi River, about an hour west of Boston. Of course, the actual Mississippi River is a half-continent away. We were in fact in a vast, warehouse-size laboratory above…
State Gets $130 Million To Help Restore 45,000 Acres Of Maurepas Swamp
February 13, 2020
A restoration project that has been on the books for 20 years finally got funding Wednesday. The state will soon break ground on the Maurepas Swamp diversion.
Louisiana expects to build more coastline in 2020 than it loses
February 12, 2020
NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) - The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority expects to build more coastal wetlands, ridges and marsh in 2020 than the state loses.
$2 billion in restoration, levee projects to be put out to bid by Louisiana coastal authority in 2020
January 16, 2020
An unprecedented 28 major coastal restoration and flood protection projects, with a total construction value of $1.97 billion, will be put out to public bid this year by the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, according to the authority's executive…