Revitalizing the Maurepas Swamp
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2020
- The restoration of Maurepas Swamp is a unique opportunity for the CPRA to expand coastal habitat restoration and sustainability projects beyond rebuilding coastal marshes and barrier islands.
Maurepas Swamp is a massive area of old-growth cypress-tupelo swamp nestled between Baton Rouge and New Orleans that separates Lake Maurepas from the Mississippi River. The swamp was once connected to areas that were flooded annually by the Mississippi, but it was isolated by levees more than a century ago. The natural hydrology of the swamp has also been interrupted by roadbeds and spoil banks from oil and gas canals.
To bring back some of the nutrients and increase water health, in 2022 the CPRA is planning to begin construction of a structure on the Mississippi River that will allow for a relatively small but vastly important flow of water at 2,000 cubic feet per second through the swamp. Approximately 45,000 acres of imperiled swamp will slowly come back to life, limiting the saltwater intrusion brought by hurricanes and improving fisheries. Hopefully, a boost to waterfowl hunting and migratory and native wildlife habitat will follow.
Where we at with progress on this?
Love me some Chris Macaluso!
I think they running a little late have not seen nothing yet
I think they should reconnect The Conway Bayou and or New Rive once the were connected to the Mississippi River. This would put the whole Maurepas basin on steroids
I hunt down there for a long time a run airboats down there a lot
What are they going to do about the invasive water plants? It's no secret that when the water hyacinth showed up, the ducks disappeared
Well there goes the little bit of dry land they have on the wma for hunting ! It does need to be done but this is for the fisherman in mine . Deer hunters get ready to hunt elsewhere bc the wma will stay flooded way to deep to walk and hunt
No matter what people do someone will complain! Seems like you just want the swamp to die! You still mad y’all lost y’all camp! Maybe you and Ricky can ride around and shot deer out y’all godevil more then y’all do now!
Huh u got me wrong I don’t have nor never had a camp in that swamp Nor was I complaining I was just stating all that hunt there will more than likely not be able to bc it will be much deeper in there than it is now
Well if the added nutrients allows vegetation that ducks like to grow more it might hold ducks better.
Flood the swamp That deep permanently also where will all the deer go ? You talking about hundreds maybe even thousands of deer displaced no food for as the swamp dieing man the earth is dieing a lil each day. There are way more important things than a swamp to worry about fixing one like the roads and bridges that are way out of compliance. I could go on and on but whatever. Point is they are fixing one problem by hurting other animals. So it not a good plan until u can fix it without hurting something else
new river, bayou conway, mississippi bayou should be siphoning from the mississippi river & dont forget that the amite feeds fresh water by way of diversion (at certainn level) to lower blind river,upper lae area, why not fix what we broke years back !!! dont need to spend all that money on a canal !!! put money to use somewhere else