Louisiana on track to have more than $2 billion in coastal restoration projects


03 19, 2014 by By Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune

Louisiana has $489 million of coastal restoration projects under construction, another $600 million worth of construction slated to begin over the next two years, and has already completed close to $1 billion of restoration work over the past few years, Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority executive director Kyle Graham said Tuesday.