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DID YOU KNOW?
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) lists a hurricane hitting New Orleans as one of the most dire potential disasters in the nation, and the Red Cross no longer opens hurricane shelters in New Orleans, citing safety risks for workers.
And with every foot, every inch of coastal wetlands that vanishesÖthe situation gets worse.
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Louisiana and its Federal partners developed the Coast 2050 Plan for restoring coastal Louisiana. Through CWPPRA (Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act), the state and five Federal agencies led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and including Departments of Interior, Commerce, Agriculture and the EPA, together with scientists, local governments, environmentalists, landowners, industry representatives, concerned citizens, and recreational and commercial fishermen reached unprecedented consensus on the Coast 2050 plan, a blueprint for restoring the coast in a way that will sustain its value for the nation and the world.
The main strategies of the plan are watershed management, such as river diversions and improved drainage, and watershed structural repair, such as the restoration of barrier islands.
Although CWPPRA has been providing about $40 million a year for coastal restoration efforts, the complexity and scale of the problem is of a magnitude never before addressed in the history of this country. The restoration of America's WETLAND will be the largest engineering project ever attempted in the world and requires projects on a far larger scale than current funds allow.
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