NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' New Orleans District and the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) of Louisiana have signed a partnership agreement for the $6.5B Southwest Coastal Louisiana hurricane and storm damage risk reduction and coastal ecosystem restoration project.
Gov. John Bel Edwards said that the "partnership is a testament to the ... shared commitment" of the state and Corps "to work together to implement projects to help reduce flood risk and storm damage to the people and businesses living and working in the region.”
With this agreement, the Corps will begin allocating nearly $300M to elevate an estimated 800-to-1,000 of an overall 3,462 residential structures identified in the feasibility report in SW Louisiana, according to CPRA Chairman Chip Kline, reducing risk for the residents of Calcasieu, Cameron and Vermilion parishes.
Southwest Coast Louisiana was authorized in the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act of 2016. An additional $10M in Community Project Funding will be applied toward project’s first restoration features, including six miles of shoreline protection at Rockefeller Refuge.
Twenty-seven structures have cleared all assessments and are ready to be raised - 17 in Vermillion and 10 in Calcasieu.
USACE will host public meetings in late summer, where homeowners can get more information on the project and begin registering for the elevation program. Structure elevations are expected to begin in June 2024.
Qualifying residential structures will be raised approximately 5 feet on average.
Additionally, 342 non-residential structures will be considered for dry-flood proofing to three feet above ground and berm construction for 157 warehouses will be considered less than or equal to 6 feet above the ground.
For more information on the Southwest Coastal Louisiana project: https://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/About/Projects/Southwest-Coastal/
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