Tue March 02, 2021 - Southeast Edition
New Orleans Times-Picayune
The proposed fiscal year 2022 coastal restoration and protection annual plan includes $75 million fo reconstruction of the Spanish Pass ridge and marsh creation project in the Barataria Basin in Plaquemines Parish. (Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group photo)
The Bayou State wants to spend $877 million in fiscal 2022 on coastal projects building more than 23 square miles of land and on advancing hurricane storm surge reduction work along the state s southeastern and south-central shoreline.
The plan represents a 19 percent reduction in spending from the current fiscal year, which ends June 30. That s primarily the result of delays in getting permits for the $1.4 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project, said Chuck Perrodin, spokesperson of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.
The Mississippi River builds land in West Bay
After several high-water events, new land pops to the surface
Coast in Crisis: The Mississippi River builds land in West Bay By John Snell | February 9, 2021 at 4:40 AM CST - Updated February 9 at 6:30 PM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Earl Armstrong, a 77-year-old cattle rancher from Boothville, has spent decades piloting his airboat out of a dock in Venice.
“I guarantee I’ve got tracks all over this place,” Armstrong joked.
The simple act of leaving tracks in the mud can be more difficult along parts of Louisiana’s rapidly-disappearing wetlands.
Armstrong has become something of an accidental coastal activist, an advocate for a project south of his home where sea now turns to land.