Vermilion Parish Coastal Restoration Efforts During 2020

Vermilion Parish Coastal Restoration Efforts During 2020

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2020 has been quite a difficult year for the louisiana coast ... as you can well imagine... as several storm have hit this hurricane season.joining us now live is ralph libersat with vermilion parish coastal restoration.

Thanks for joining us ralph.1.

Where are you was close enought yet drop far enough to be out of harm's way.

And i could get back- soon enough.

Already been in contact with.

Some of the police jury members and everybody's just holding on right now.

We have definitely been prepared and all for the worse and praying for the best.

And just because kobe had stored in twenty twenty has been very difficult we still been able to do some things with coastal restoration.

With the help of laws cpr eight which is the coastal protection and restoration authority- what we have done is initiate with some of the funding that they have given us.

Offer some shoreline protections along the northern rail- of the million bag at a long fresh water by you which is an economic.

Benefit to the parish and also.

Protects lots of marches on either side of that- vital waterway.

Designing we've designed these projects over the years and quite at large quite a bit on how to do them properly- vermilion parish one of our priorities is shoreline protection.

And these- gives multiple- layers of defense for storm surge and the marsh behind that and that's very important for the million packs.

The things that we have ongoing right now is about three or four projects as i said we have some projects along northern vermilion bay- we have some projects along fresh water by you.

And also we're having with some of our goal may serve finds us with some of the offshore rig all royalties fines- we have some protection along the southwest pass if you've ever been down there there's a- little spit of land that.

Is very all all susceptible to erosion and were heartening that and also along.

The southern gulf.

Shoreline we have some shoreline protection that has worked very good in the past and we're just- extending those areas to get.

Saddam that's behind that.

In our marshes south of here and we're looking forward to try to get out there and assess them and working with cbre and