Coastal Project Types
This type of project involves using sediment dredged from nearby water bottoms, offshore shoals, waterways or rivers to build land in shallow open water areas or to enhance existing wetlands.
What is marsh creation?
This plan is developed every six years and is mandated to reduce coastal wetland loss while also reducing storm surge-based flood risk.
What is the Coastal Master Plan?
This invasive rodent is native to South America and known to cause permanent damage to marshes and other wetlands.
What is the Nutria?
The Louisiana Legislature formed this state agency in 2005 to address recovery issues in the state following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
What is the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority?
This federal agency, responsible for managing the nation’s water resources and flood control projects, partners with CPRA on major restoration efforts like levee systems and sediment diversions.
What is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers?
This type of project involves using segmented rock breakwaters, wave attenuation devices to reduce erosion along shorelines.
Shoreline Protection
Flooding generated by a hurricane or tropical storm, over and above the predicted astronomical tides.
What is storm surge-based flooding?
This iconic bird, known for its large wingspan and distinctive throat pouch, is the state bird of Louisiana and often seen along the coast.
What is the brown pelican?
This 2010 environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico released millions of barrels of oil, severely impacting Louisiana’s coastline and wildlife.
What is the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?
This organization collaborates with CPRA on innovative water management solutions and research to address Louisiana’s coastal challenges, particularly in relation to flooding and land loss.
What is the Water Institute?
These engineered structures are built along rivers and the coast to protect against flooding and storm surges, but can sometimes interfere with natural sediment flow.
What is a levee?
Lowering of the land surface to a combination of natural and human-induced processes such as the removal of oil and natural gas, soil compaction, etc.
What is land subsidence?
A key species in the Gulf of Mexico’s ecosystem, this small fish is harvested in large quantities and is a major source of omega-3 oils.
What is menhaden?
This act is the first federally mandated restoration effort to take place along Louisiana’s coast and the first program to provide a stable source of federal funds dedicated specifically to coastal restoration.
What is "The Breaux Act"?
This facility focuses on understanding river dynamics and sediment transport and partners with CPRA to develop strategies for restoring and sustaining Louisiana's coastal ecosystems.
What is the LSU Center for River Studies?
This large, movable barrier is designed to control water flow during storm surges or high river levels, helping to protect coastal communities from flooding, such as those along Louisiana’s coast.
What is a floodgate?
A structured, iterative process of incorporating new information to improve decision-making over time.
What is Adaptive Management?
This bivalve mollusk, found in Louisiana’s estuaries and coastal waters, plays a crucial role in filtering water and providing habitat for other marine life, while also being a key part of the state’s seafood industry.
What is an oyster?
This 1965 storm in Louisiana caused major flooding, loss of life, and property damage, and it is the first billion-dollar hurricane. In response, Congress ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to build a massive flood-protection system for New Orleans.
What is Hurricane Betsy?
This program funded through CPRA and LED assists Louisiana-based, small businesses in obtaining contracts with entities involved in the restoration and recovery efforts of coastal Louisiana.
What is the Coastal Technical Assistance Center?
This project type uses gates in a river levee to allow freshwater and sediment to flow into adjacent wetland basins. These projects restore historic deltaic processes, build new land, nourish existing wetlands, and prevent saltwater incursion into the estuary.
What is a diversion?
A modeling condition in which 2023 Coastal Master Plan projects are represented on the modeled landscape and outputs are a result of the impact of their implementation.
What is Future With Action (FWA)?
For the first time in 75 years, this animal was discovered nesting on Louisiana's Chandeleur Islands in 2022. There are now three different endangered species of this animal utilizing the islands.
What is the sea turtle?
This event has been characterized as one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States. More than 23,000 square miles of land flooded, masses of people were displaced and nearly 250 people died.
What is The Great Flood of 1927?
This state agency works closely with CPRA to ensure that wildlife conservation efforts align with coastal restoration projects, especially for endangered species in Louisiana’s wetlands.
What is Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries?