COASTAL WETLANDS PLANNING, PROTECTION AND RESTORATION ACT

PROJECT STATUS REPORT as of 29-Mar-2024

Plowed Terraces Demo COMPLETE

PROJECT DATA

PROJECT: Plowed Terraces Demo COMPLETE
PRIORITY LIST: 4 PROJECT NO: 0452 CWPPRA NO: XCS-56 DNR NO: CS-25
PROJECT TYPE: Terracing NET ACRES BENEFITTED: 0
REGION: 4 BASIN: Calcasieu/Sabine PARISH: Cameron
LEAD AGENCY: NRCS
LOCAL SPONSOR: DEPT. OF NATURAL RESOURCES, STATE OF LA

MILESTONES:

CSA EXECUTION: 22-Oct-1998 ( Actual )    
DESIGN COMPLETION: 30-Jan-1998 ( Actual )    
CONSTRUCTION START: 30-Apr-1999 ( Actual )    
CONSTRUCTION COMPLETION: 31-Aug-2000 ( Actual )    
ESCROW AMENDMENT 19-Mar-1999 ( Actual ) No: 58
MONITORING PLAN APPROVAL: 21-Oct-1998 ( Actual )    
O and M PLAN APPROVAL:    
DEAUTHORIZATION DATE:      
CASH FLOW PROECTS:        
Phase 1 Approval: 16-Dec-1994 ( Actual )    
Phase 2 Approval:    

LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS:

CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: 3 Charles W. Boustany
STATE SENATE DISTRICT: 25 Dan "Blade" Morrish
STATE HOUSE DISTRICT: 36 Chuck Kleckley

Point of Contact:

DEPT. OF COMMERCE
NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE

Quin Kinler



Denham Springs, LA 
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COASTAL WETLANDS PLANNING, PROTECTION AND RESTORATION ACT

PROJECT STATUS REPORT as of 29-Mar-2024

Plowed Terraces Demo COMPLETE

PROJECT LOCATION:

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

This project will develop and demonstrate a non-traditional procedure for constructing earthen terraces in shallow open water areas. Thirty-eight earthen terraces will serve as wave-stilling, sediment-trapping structures and provide a medium base for the establishment of emergent vegetation. If successful, this technique will provide a less expensive method of constructing earthen terraces than the traditional method using excavation equipment and its consequent borrow channels.

PROJECT STATUS: (Project Status Last Updated: 11-Dec-2001 )

Project initially put on hold pending results of an earlier terraces demonstration project being paid for by the Gulf of Mexico program. The first attempt to plow the terraces in the summer of 1999 was not successful. A second contract was advertised in January 2000 to try again. Construction is complete.

FUND STATUS:

The current project estimate is $324,970 , which includes $280,216 for construction first costs, and $41,424 and $3,330 for 20 years of monitoring and operations and maintenance, respectively.

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