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Cameron Parish awarded $122M for marsh restoration

Project funded by Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement

First phase includes seven new drainage structures near Calcasieu Lake

Future work will add channels, dredged material, and upgrades

Cameron Parish will receive a sizable grant to help rebuild its vanishing marshlands, state officials announced.

The Calcasieu-Sabine Basin will get $122 million from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement for drainage improvements geared to help marsh plants grow and halt erosion.

The basin, on trend with the entire Louisiana coastline, has experienced dramatic wetland loss , with more than 128,000 acres lost since 1932 and a projected 110,000 at risk of loss in a future without intervention, based on data from the

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