Скачать или смотреть Louisiana coastal restoration continues following state's $3 billion blunder

(17 Aug 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Garyville, Louisiana - 25 July 2025
1. Wide of Hope Canal
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Brad Miller, Project Manager, Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority:
"And today we're out on Hope Canal which is part of a five and a half mile channel that we're gonna enhance to bring fresh river water with nutrients to the Maurepas Swamp, which has been dying for over a century."
3. Mid of guide levee
4. Close up of alligator
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Brad Miller, Project Manager, Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority:
"This particular project is extremely important to coastal Louisiana. This habitat here, this Maurepas Swamp is one of the biggest remaining coastal swamps in the state."
6. Various of excavators digging
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Brad Miller, Project Manager, Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority:
"Right, so our contractor, Phylway Construction, we're paying them to dig dirt out of the canal and also we need these small guide levees on the sides to convey that water. So we're using the material that were deep in the canal with help convey the water into the swamp."
8. Mid of excavator digging
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Brad Miller, Project Manager, Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority:
"We know from decades of research that these trees are not growing how cypress trees should grow. So that's one of the main things we're gonna measure is how quickly does this swamp respond to putting that river water back into the swamp."
10. Mid of dead cypress tree
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Brad Miller, Project Manager, Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority:
"Big picture, these projects, A, are to restore natural processes but that benefits all of the public whether you're a recreational fisherman or just healthier wetlands or more protection for storm surge. So there's all sorts of secondary and tertiary benefits when we build a really big project like this."
12. Various of excavators digging
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Brad Miller, Project Manager, Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority:
"Not building these huge ecosystem restoration projects, we'd be going backwards in Louisiana. Fortunately, we have more projects than we have money so sometimes a project doesn't work out, whether it's because of land rights or some other factor and that's okay. There's plenty of projects to work on in south Louisiana. So even if a project gets cancelled or doesn't go through there is enough projects for the amount of money we have to continue building projects forever."
14. Mid of excavator
15. Bird flies over Hope Canal
16. Wide of Hope Canal

ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Belle Chase, Louisiana - 10 August 2023
17. Various of groundbreaking for the now cancelled Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project
18. Wide aerial showing where diversion canal would have been ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
Coastal communities nationwide are ramping up efforts to restore and protect their shorelines as climate change causes more intense and destructive storms and leads to sea-level rise that puts tens of millions of people at risk.

In Louisiana, dozens of projects are completed, planned or underway, including the River Reintroduction into Maurepas Swamp which will allow water and sediment from the Mississippi River to flow into the 45,000-acre swamp.

The swamp has been dying for nearly a century after levees along the Mississippi river were built and cut off the nutrient supply for one of Louisiana's biggest coastal swamps.





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