Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Board (CPRA) at its meeting yesterday presented the agency’s 3rd Quarter Progress Report.
The report was presented by CPRA Deputy Executive Director Jason Lanclos . It features 72 total active projects: 5 projects in planning, 23 in construction, and 44 in engineering and design. “ Implementation of these projects will benefit more than 130,800 acres of coastal habitat and improve more than 187 miles of levee, ” Lanclos stated.
By the end of the 3rd quarter, CPRA anticipates completion of $160.7 million in construction projects benefiting 4121 acres and improving .5 miles of levee. Also advertised or mobilized in this quarter CPRA reports $90.3M new projects that will benefit 1130 acres and improve 2.4 miles of levee. To bid within the next six months, the $23.9M South Grand Chenier Marsh Creation Project will benefit 414 acres in Cameron Parish.
Lanclos also reported $626.7 million in projects scheduled to complete this quarter: $10.9M Morgan City/St. Mary Flood Protection to improve 2.5 miles of levee, St. Mary Parish; $614.8M Permanent Canal Closures and Pump Stations to improve .3 miles of levee in Jefferson and Orleans Parishes; and $1M Kraemer Bayou Boeuf Levee Lift to improve 6 miles of levee, Lafourche Parish.
Yesterday, CPRA also announced receipt of an $18.5 million Deepwater Horizon RESTORE Act grant for the Houma Navigation Canal project. In a release issued by the Governor, CPRA Board Chair Johnny Bradberry stated, “ This is a high performing Master Plan project that will complement previously implemented segments of the Morganza to the Gulf Hurricane Protection System funded through local and state efforts. ”
Click here to view CPRA’s 3rd Quarter Progress Report