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Louisiana Announces Start Of Lake Borgne Marsh Creation Project
| 题名： | Louisiana Announces Start Of Lake Borgne Marsh Creation Project |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | FRANK MCCORMACK |
| 摘要： | On January 4, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards announced the state has begun construction on the Lake Borgne Marsh Creation Project, part of the Pontchar-train Basin restoration plan being overseen by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA). "I want to thank CPRA for their work in advancing this record-breaking effort to restore hundreds of acres of marshland in the Pontchartrain Basin," Edwards said. "The Lake Borgne project and others like it play a vital role in reversing the trend of land loss across Louisiana, and this project represents significant progress in the fight to preserve our coast." Lake Pontchartrain is the oval-shaped lake just north of New Orleans that covers roughly 630 square miles. Through the Rigolets and Chef Mentour Pass and tiny Lake St. Catherine, Lake Pontchartrain connects to Lake Borgne to the southeast. Early maps depict Lake Borgne as totally separate from the Gulf of Mexico. However, erosion and subsidence have transformed Lake Borgne into an open, tidal lagoon connected to the Gulf of Mexico. The Lake Borgne Marsh Creation Project, located in eastern St. Bernard Parish, will "create and nourish" about 2,770 acres of marsh on the southern end of the lake. The project, at a cost of $61 million, will be funded by the Natural Resource Damage Assessment program created after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 135 |
| 期： | 42 |
| 页码： | 8-8 |
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