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No Name Bayou marsh-creation project delayed by pipeline discovery; dredge expected in ~30 days
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CBRE said the CWPRO-funded No Name Bayou Marsh Creation (CS 78) — a roughly $20 million, 466-acre project — had a start delay after exposed pipelines were found; the access channel was moved and the dredge is expected to return in about 30 days, with roughly 5.5 million cubic yards planned from the borrow site.
Travis Moore, CBRE project manager, updated the Cameron Parish agenda meeting on the No Name Bayou Marsh Creation project (CS 78), saying the CWPRO-funded effort is about a $20,000,000 project with a $14,000,000 construction contract and covers roughly 466 acres.
"This project's located, in the corner of the lake down there onto to the west side, starting about halfway into Tebow McCall's property and to the wildlife refuge," Moore said. He added: "This is a CWPRO funded project... This is a $20,000,000 project, and it was a $14,000,000 construction contract awarded over a year ago. 466 acres of marsh."
Moore said discovery of exposed pipelines delayed the dredge; the team shifted the access channel north to avoid infrastructure and secure a safe dredge corridor. "There was discovery of a couple exposed pipelines, so safety decision was made not to bring the dredge across the lake until that was confirmed and a better solution was acquired," Moore said. He said the revised approach removes the dredge crossing of the affected pipelines and that "our anticipation and current plan today is that occurs in 30 days," referring to dredge activity resumption and a forthcoming notice to mariners.
Project technical details discussed at the meeting included borrow-source selection (the second half of CS 54) and anticipated material volumes. "We're gonna be acquiring roughly 5 and a half million cubic yards of material from this site, pumping into the marsh," Moore said. He also described a three-cell fill-and-dewater staging plan and said contractors would place multiple dewatering boxes (the team has discussed seven to nine across that side).
Environmental oversight and permitting were raised repeatedly. Moore said the project was assigned a federal lead agency (referred to in the transcript as "Noah") and that DNR remains part of the permitting and review process; wildlife and fisheries conditions, oyster-survey boundaries (reported as 500–1,000 feet around impacts), and oxygen monitoring after a prior segment were cited as monitoring measures.
Meeting participants pressed on conveyance-channel readiness and settlement risks where nearby projects and LNG-related canal work overlap. Moore said his engineers were coordinating with other project teams and regulators and noted a history of marsh-creation work in Cameron Parish that aims to avoid uncontrolled sediment losses.
Moore also said the project team is coordinating with Venture Global; staff reported Venture Global has been responsive and that coordination influenced timing decisions for nearby marine activity.
Moore said the team will post outreach materials, make slides available and create a project webpage so residents can track activity and report concerns.
