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Saint Charles Parish completes 13,000-foot LaBranche shoreline protection stretch funded by CPRA
Summary
Parish President Jewell said about 13,000 feet of Lake Pontchartrain shoreline in the LaBranche area have been protected in a $24 million CPRA project; the parish described erosion happening since engineering began in 2016 and expects marsh recovery similar to Lake Salvador.
Parish President Jewell said the LaBranche shoreline protection project has now protected about 13,000 feet of Lake Pontchartrain shoreline in northeast Saint Charles Parish, a $24,000,000 project funded by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA).
Jewell described the work as extending from the parish line canal near Kenner nearly to Wetland Watchers Park and said she attended a completion event where Milton Calm, a lifelong wetlands conservation advocate, placed the final rock. She said the parish observed marsh degradation during the project’s engineering and construction phases — noting the project began early in its planning around 2016 — and said officials expect the shoreline to rebuild over the rockwork as occurred in Lake Salvador.
On the record, parish staff did not provide the full engineering report or monitoring schedule in the remarks; Jewell described the expectation of marsh recovery based on precedent at other local projects but did not present monitoring data in the meeting.
The parish said it wants to continue shoreline protection work toward the spillway on the opposite side of the project area, but no formal council action or funding appropriation for further phases was announced during the remarks.
