Fishermen and property owners in lower Plaquemines Parish are optimistic about a plan for how to rebuild lost wetlands at the Mississippi Delta, though state officials still need to line up more than $150 million to pay for the project.
Members of the Louisiana Coastal Restoration and Protection Authority sought input from locals and fisherman who live and work around the southernmost tip of Southeast Louisiana. They were given the floor Tuesday night at a community meeting held at the New Orleans Big Game Fishing Club in Venice on the Bird’s Foot Delta Hydrologic Restoration Project.
The project would open and close some of the both natural and human-made channels of water in the delta to use river water and sediment to revitalize the adjacent marsh…