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DREDGING OUTLOOK

Sediment being delivered to create marsh near Bayou

Dupont, just south of Belle Chasse and Jean La? tte. All of these Louisiana marsh creation projects have been created with sediment dredged either from the river or from offshore.

Credit: LA Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority

CPRA has awarded all of its recent dredging work on ecosystem restoration.” CPRA will continue to examine a low-bid basis, consistent with the state's bid laws. “To the possible use of that dredged material.

date, Illinois-based Great Lakes Dredge & Dock and New

Jersey-headquartered Weeks Marine have received the Army Corps sees that channels are dredged most dredging contracts let by CPRA,” Simoneaux said. Keeping the lower Mississippi open for navigation is the

Mississippi River sediment diversions in the master plan Corps' biggest dredging cost in south Louisiana. Over the are crucial to building and maintaining land, along with last