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Nola.com, Halle Parker - Excavators and bulldozers rolled into place Tuesday as a chocolatey plume of sandy water spilled out of a pipeline near Venice.
October 6, 2021
AP News - Restoration of an island in Louisiana’s fragile coastal area is proving wildly popular with the birds it was rebuilt for, their numbers exploding on the recently added land, authorities said Wednesday.
September 24, 2021
Houma Today, Keith Magill - Louisiana's biggest barrier island restoration project, off the coast of Terrebonne Parish, withstood Hurricane Ida with minimal damage, state officials said.
July 26, 2021
WDSU, Harrison Golden – A $760 million flood protection project in talks for decades is one step closer to reality in Louisiana's River Parishes. Construction on the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain Flood Damage Risk Reduction Project started Monday in St.…
July 26, 2021
nola.com, Mark Schleifstein – In 1970, River Parishes leaders who were worried that the new levee system being built in New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Betsy would push flooding to communities on the western edge of Lake Pontchartrain…
May 19, 2021
nola.com, Mark Schleifstein - Three major restoration projects to build more than 2,900 acres of marsh, coastal ridges and barrier island beaches and dunes have started construction in southeast Louisiana, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Wednesday.