NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The state of Louisiana has withdrawn permit applications for one of its largest coastal restoration efforts, the Mid-Breton Sediment Diversion Project on the east bank of Plaquemines Parish.

The project would have channeled up to 75,000 cubic feet per second of Mississippi River water and sediment into Breton Sound to build wetlands.

Gordon Dove, chairman of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, confirmed the state had effectively canceled the project.

The state had already pulled the plug on a similar project, the $3.1 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion on the west bank of the river in Plaquemines Parish.

While construction on Mid-Barataria had already begun, the Mid-Breton project was still in the design and engineering phase.

Coastal

See Full Page