LA TIG Phase II Restoration Plan/Environmental Assessment #3.3: Large-Scale Marsh Creation: Upper Barataria Component

Consistent with the PDARP/PEIS, the Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group has prepared the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group Draft Phase II Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment #3.3, Large-Scale Marsh Creation: Upper Barataria Component. This plan considers design alternatives for Upper Barataria marsh creation to benefit wetlands, coastal, and nearshore habitats in the Louisiana Restoration Area. The estimated cost of the project is $176 million. These costs cover engineering and design, construction, monitoring and adaptive management, and operations and maintenance.

The proposed Upper Barataria Marsh Creation project would restore approximately 1,207 acres of intertidal marshes. Construction would require approximately 26 months and entail filling diked marsh creation areas with approximately 10.6 million cubic yards of sediment from renewable Mississippi River borrow sources.

The proposed project was approved for engineering and design in the 2018 Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group Strategic Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment #3: Restoration of Wetlands, Coastal, and Nearshore Habitats in the Barataria Basin.

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