Office of Conservation

FRITCHIE MARSH RESTORATION PROJECT COMPLETED

The La. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and its federal sponsor, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), have recently completed a wetlands restoration project in St. Tammany Parish.

The Fritchie Marsh Restoration project is located approximately 3 miles southeast of Slidell near the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. For years, this marsh area had been deteriorating and becoming less and less productive. The project encompasses 6,443 acres of intermediate to brackish marsh.

Even though all dredging, weir construction, and culvert work is now complete, DNR will continue to monitor the project over twenty years. Sponsored by the Breaux Act, this project will allow freshwater into the Fritichie Marsh interior. The project is funded by NRCS and DNR and is expected to cost $1.5 million.

Click here to read the news story from The New Orleans Times-Picayune, 4/6/01

Editors: For more on this topic, please contact DNR Coastal Restoration Division, Project Engineer John Hodnett at 225-342-7305.