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The Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge Erosion Protection and Marsh Enhancement Project, completed in August of 1994, protects more than 640 acres of freshwater marsh in the southern part of the Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge in Cameron Parish. Rich with aquatic plant life, that portion of the refuge provides a wintering area for more than 5,500 ducks and geese.
Relying solely on structural techniques, the project uses a rock dike breakwater to forestall further erosion along a bank that separates the refuge from the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW). Over time, wave action from waterway traffic has eroded more than 6,000 feet of the spoil bank. Without the spoil bank, valuable emergent wetlands and beds of aquatic vegetation would erode and revert to turbid, shallow areas adjacent to an ever-widening waterway.
This project was sponsored by both the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Louisiana Department of Natural Resources. |
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