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CPRA scientist details mixed monitoring results for St. Tammany mitigation projects
Summary
CPRA scientist Alyssa Hemel reported on mitigation projects in Saint Tammany Parish, describing Turner-over outcomes, vegetation success criteria, reasons for shortfalls, and planned replanting or monitoring schedules for Milton Island, Fritchie Marsh (Zydeco Ridge) and a NOV-system marsh project.
Alyssa Hemel, a CPRA scientist in the New Orleans office, briefed the board on the status of Corps-constructed mitigation projects that CPRA now oversees as the non-federal sponsor. She summarized the federal compensatory requirement—type-for-type replacement—and explained CPRA’s 50-year oversight role for post-turnover operation, maintenance and monitoring.
On Milton Island (143 acres of intermediate marsh created with roughly 1,000,000 cubic yards of borrow), Hemel said the Corps achieved initial…
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