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MVN-2019-0339-EOO

Published Aug. 19, 2019
Expiration date: 9/17/2019
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Name of Applicant: Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana (CPRA), 150 Terrace Avenue, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802

Location of Work: Three borrow locations are found in the Mississippi River (named B2, DDDD, BBBB), ranging from River Mile 0.9 to 17.1 near Venice, Louisiana. Two offshore borrow areas (Grand Liard East and West) are located in the Gulf of Mexico, south of Pelican and Scofield Islands, in Plaquemines Parish Louisiana. The proposed ridge and marsh creation areas are west of Venice, Louisiana in the Barataria Basin along the historic Spanish Pass in the Barataria Basin. The five borrow locations and nine ridge and marsh creation cells are shown in the enclosed drawings.

Latitude: 29.259522, Longitude: -89.421922 (within the ridge and marsh creation fill area) 

Hydrologic Unit Code: 08090100 – Lower Mississippi – New Orleans

                                        08090301 – East Central Louisiana Coastal

Character of Work: CPRA is proposing to excavate, fill, and maintain dredged material for the Spanish Pass Ridge and Marsh Restoration Project (Spanish Pass). The proposed project is a component of the overall large scale restoration strategy outlined in the Louisiana State Coastal Master Plan and funding has been requested via the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) Settlement/National Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA) to restore for injuries resulting from the DWH oil spill.

Up to 37.6 million cubic yards of fill material within 612 acres of non-vegetated waterbottoms is proposed to be excavated from three nearby borrow areas in the Mississippi River (B2, DDDD, BBBB) and, if needed, the Grand Liard East and West offshore borrow areas. Of which, a maximum of 18.8 million cubic yards of material would be placed within the nine fill locations near the historic Spanish Pass Ridge area. Target marsh elevations would be constructed to +3.0 feet and ridges to an elevation of +5 feet (North American Vertical Datum of 1988 or NAVD 88).

Construction would likely be accomplished through cutterhead and bucket dredges with material traveling via conveyance pipelines, where marsh buggies and bulldozers would shape containment dikes, ridges, and relocate fill material in within the nine marsh creation cells which consist of jurisdictional wetlands and waters of the U.S. Containment dikes would be necessary for marsh creation areas if the dredge material has higher proportions of fine silt or clay sediments. The containment dikes, if needed, are shown in the drawings as “alternative B”.

In total, CPRA expects the proposed project to create up to 187 acres of ridge habitat and 1,688 acres of marsh habitat.


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