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NOAA Earth Day 2010

The Grand Isle and St. Bernard Parish Shoreline Restoration – Grand Isle, Louisiana

The Nature Conservancy was awarded $4 million to restore marsh and protect coastal and marine habitats. The project is building more than five acres of bioengineered oyster reef. The project will also add acreage to a project that has been funded under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act.

This project will protect 3.4 miles of vulnerable shorelines along Grand Isle and St. Bernard Marsh. The reef that is being constructed will protect more than 350 acres of emergent marsh, and will benefit more than 100 marine species associated with oyster reefs in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Local communities will also profit as skilled laborers are hired and welding students are trained to create the reef structures.

From the Event

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  NOAA Principle Deputy Under Secretary Monica Medina and others examine new reef structures which will be placed into the water off the coast of Grand Isle, Louisiana.