Featured Project
Caminada Headlands Back Barrier Marsh Creation
Watershed & Coastal
Lafourche and Jefferson Parishes, Louisiana
Waggoner provided construction administration and inspection for the successful completion of this over $30 million marsh creation project. This project consists of a single marsh creation area of approximately 1,000 acres adjacent to the previously constructed Caminada Headland Beach and Dune projects.
The project was originally designed to use the adjacent southern dune as part of the marsh fill containment; however, this dune was damaged by two hurricanes during the project’s construction. Our team worked with the contractor to add southern dune remediation to their existing effort constructing the connecting 51,000 linear feet of containment dikes on the west, north and east of the fill area. Marsh fill was transported to the area via a slurry pipeline from two offshore borrow areas approximately two miles away.
51,000
Linear feet of containment dikes
Natural Challenges
By working diligently with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF), Waggoner navigated the project’s dune construction through the migratory bird nesting season. While this project suffered setbacks due to unprecedented damage and/or delays from several exceptionally destructive named storms (Zeta, Ida, Cristobal, and others), Waggoner worked with the contractor, Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, Environmental Protection Agency, local landowners, pipeline companies and LDWF to deliver this much-needed restoration project to the Grand Isle and Elmer’s Island communities.
