updated Tue. July 30, 2024
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NOLA.com
March 8, 2018
About 40 percent of those surveyed said they do business in Barataria Bay, where water and sediment from the state's biggest planned diversion will flood into. As designed, the Mid-Barataria sediment diversion would allow as much as 75,000 cubic feet per second of Mississippi River sediment and waterÃâà...
FOX 8 News WVUE-TV
March 2, 2018
The project, estimated to cost $1.4 billion, would push as much as 75,000 cubic feet per second of fresh river water and sediment in Barataria Bay during periods of high water on the Mississippi River. Proponents, including many coastal scientists, believe by mimicking the land-building power of the river,Ãâà...
TCPalm
March 1, 2018
Five years after the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, splotches of oil still dot the seafloor and wads of tarry petroleum-smelling material hide in pockets in the marshes of Barataria Bay. (April 17) AP. 636446116010574734-JacquiThurlow-Lippisch.jpg. Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch (Photo:Ãâà...
New York Times
February 24, 2018
Northward from the Gulf, slivers of barrier island give way to the open water of Barataria Bay as it billows toward an inevitable merger with Little Lake, its name now a lie. Ever-widening bayous course through what were once dense wetlands, and a cross-stitch of oil field canals stamp the marsh like ChineseÃâà...
The Advocate
January 26, 2018
The National Marine Fisheries Service has also raised questions about whether the diversion could make Barataria Bay too fresh for the bottlenose dolphins that currently call it home, raising potential issues for the project under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. But backers of the project have noted thatÃâà...
NOLA.com
August 27, 2017
An environmental group that turned oyster shells from New Orleans-area restaurants into an oyster reef has received $250,000 to build its second reef. The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana says the new one will be on the West Bank of Jefferson Parish, along the western edge of Barataria Bay.
NOLA.com
December 31, 1999
"The places in Texas were not at all like the mouth of the (Mississippi) river or Barataria Bay," he said. The Mississippi River Delta has one of the world's largest concentrations of roseau. Typically growing in dense, 10-foot-high stands and covering hundreds of thousands of acres, the delta's roseau is nowÃâà...
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