With Tuesday’s groundbreaking, the construction project is beginning with almost no opposition, a stark contrast to the controversial and now-delayed Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion ...

Before the levee ... mimic that natural process by giving the river more space to "better choose its own course and to move as much as it can," Wirth said. The Rio Grande is a sediment-heavy ...

proposes to slice open a section of the levee that keeps North America’s largest river from its natural wanderings and allow freshwater and sediment to enter the Barataria Basin, where the ...

Louisiana has long relied on a vast levee system to rein ... river water will leave thin layers of sediment deposits that mitigate the effect of subsidence — a natural phenomenon on Louisiana's ...

By reconnecting the two waterways, officials said the Maurepas Swamp will again receive the freshwater, nutrients, and sediment it needs ... swamp will serve as a natural storm surge barrier ...

These sediments will help counter subsidence, a natural sinking of land worsened by fossil fuel ... which is building an 18.5-mile levee system nearby to protect southeast Louisiana communities. The ...