Coastal Protection and
Restoration Authority

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.

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.

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.…

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…