$17 Million Contract Awarded to Create Lousiana Storm Buffer

Environment News Service, April, 2006

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (ENS) — --> The NOAA Restoration Center and the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources have awarded a $17.7 million wetlands restoration contract that will protect and create 1,400 acres of wetlands in Lafourche Parish to buffer the coastline against future storms.

Wetlands and coastal marshes provide an indispensable buffer for populated areas against the impacts of coastal storms and hurricanes. The 2005 hurricane season underscored this fact, NOAA said, announcing the contract.

The project, awarded to Pine Bluff Sand and Gravel Company of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, is located in an area that protects approximately 3,000 acres of fragile interior marshes between Louisiana's Little Lake shoreline and Bayou L'Ours Ridge.

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