LA TIG Restoration Plan/Environmental Assessment #3.1: Barataria Basin Marsh Creation

The Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group has initiated developing the Draft Restoration Plan/Environmental Assessment #3.1: Barataria Basin Marsh Creation (Draft Restoration Plan #3.1). This restoration plan will tier from the Strategic Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment for Barataria Basin, Louisiana (Barataria Basin Strategic Restoration Plan), pursuant to the Deepwater Horizon Trustees Programmatic Restoration Plan. The Trustees initially began this restoration planning effort in April 2017 with the announcement of the intent to draft the Barataria Basin Strategic Restoration Plan. In that plan, we analyzed four strategic alternatives “to restore ecosystem-level injuries in the Gulf of Mexico through restoration of critical wetlands, coastal and nearshore habitat resources and services in the Barataria Basin.” Marsh creation and ridge restoration plus large-scale sediment diversion was selected as the strategic alternative best meeting the purpose and need for restoration in the Barataria Basin. In Draft Restoration Plan #3.1, we will consider one or more project alternatives consistent with the large-scale marsh creation approach evaluated in the Barataria Basin Strategic Restoration Plan.