Through a series of flood walls and guide walls, the MBSD will mechanically deliver what Mother Nature once did by recreating a riverine and estuarine collaboration resembling the previous natural process. 

New master plan, if implemented, could eventually produce annual cost savings of between $10.7 billion to $14.5 billion, state officials say.

Industry leaders and lawmakers in Louisiana are eyeing infrastructure projects as the remedy for a coronavirus-plagued economy.

The second of two major sediment diversion projects in Plaquemines Parish, La., is closer to construction following the naming of a contractor to build the $700-million structure that will use mud from the bottom of the Mississippi River to help rebuild the state’s disappearing wetlands.