Calcasieu River and Pass Restoration

This project created about 120 acres of tidal salt marsh utilizing dredged material removed from along the west side of the Calcasieu River and Pass Ship Channel in Calcasieu and Cameron Parishes, Louisiana. The marsh creation site was a high quality area that, as a result of salinity intrusion caused by channelization and subsidence, had severely eroded. About 20 percent of the area was deteriorated marsh and the rest was open water, one-third of which was less than one foot deep.