La. Phase 2 restoration finalized

After consideration of public comments, the Louisiana Area Trustees have finalized the Louisiana’s Phase 2 Restoration Plan/Environmental Assessment #1.3 (PDF, 159 pages) - released as a draft in November 2019. The plan includes a bird restoration project on Rabbit Island, and a habitat restoration project at Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve. The final approved combined cost of the projects is approximately $37M. These costs cover engineering and design, construction, monitoring and adaptive management, and operations and maintenance. The Rabbit Island project will restore 87.8 acres of the island’s original 200-acre footprint. The shoreline protection project at Jean Lafitte will install a rock breakwater along the eastern shorelines of Lake Salvador to improve habitat for submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV). Both projects included in this plan are components of larger restoration strategies and were approved for engineering and design in the 2017 Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group Final Restoration Plan #1. This final plan is consistent with the Trustees’ programmatic restoration plan. (Source: Gulf Spill Restoration 02/27/20) https://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/2020/02/louisiana-area-trustees-release-final-restoration-plan-rabbit-island-and-jean-lafitte?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery