Bayou Lamoque Freshwater Diversion Project
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Louisiana /
Empire /
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/ Louisiana
/ Empire
World / United States / Louisiana
This project is designed to achieve several goals within 20 years
by continuously diverting up to 13,000 cfs (average 2,500 cfs)
of water from the Mississippi River water into Bayou Lamoque.
By strategically gapping spoil banks along Bayou Lamoque, the
distribution of diverted water in the benefitted area will be
highly improved. Project goals include creating approximately
620 acres of new marsh, increasing the percent cover of aquatic
vegetation in interior marsh ponds and channels, increasing the
area of shallow open-water habitat, and decreasing the average
salinity level in the project area.
lacoast.gov/new/Projects/Info.aspx?num=BS-13
by continuously diverting up to 13,000 cfs (average 2,500 cfs)
of water from the Mississippi River water into Bayou Lamoque.
By strategically gapping spoil banks along Bayou Lamoque, the
distribution of diverted water in the benefitted area will be
highly improved. Project goals include creating approximately
620 acres of new marsh, increasing the percent cover of aquatic
vegetation in interior marsh ponds and channels, increasing the
area of shallow open-water habitat, and decreasing the average
salinity level in the project area.
lacoast.gov/new/Projects/Info.aspx?num=BS-13
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 29°26'49"N 89°33'38"W
- Sixtymile Point 6.8 km
- Plaquemines Bend 12 km
- The Wagon Wheel (Chawnee Bay) 25 km
- West Bay Freshwater Diversion Project 35 km
- Cubit's Gap 38 km
- South Pass 45 km
- Johnson Pass 49 km
- Dennis Pass 49 km
- Loomis Pass 50 km
- Pass a l'Outre, Louisiana 56 km
- Mississippi River Delta Erosion 19 km
- Mississippi River Delta 49 km
- Breton Sound 49 km
- Chandeleur Islands 63 km
- Whiting Dome 127 km
- Biloxi Dome 139 km
- Horn Dome 146 km
- Mitchell Dome 146 km
- GLORIA Dome 149 km
- Mobile Dome 167 km