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Bayou Dupont
Project Area Marshes: Badly degraded, likely due to lack of natural freshwater and sediment input, subsidence, increased tidal influence and the dredging of oil and gas canals. The project's proximity to renewable Mississippi River sediment sources provides an excellent opportunity to design a sediment delivery system that will utilize sediment dredged from the river to restore and create wetlands in this area of critical need.
Project Mission: To deliver sediment from the Mississippi River to restore ~538 acres of marsh in a rapidly eroding and subsiding section of the Barataria Basin; also to demonstrate technology and efficacy of using riverine sediment for marsh rebuilding.
- Finding of No Significant Impact (PDF) (297KB, 2pp, About PDF)
- Mississippi River Sediment Delivery System - Bayou Dupont (BA-39) Overview
