$265 million to rebuild Louisiana's living shield: 1,700 acres of marsh and barrier island

Louisiana's coast is its first line of defence against storms — and it has been washing away for decades. Now the state's Deepwater Horizon trustees have given final approval to two restoration projects worth about $265 million together, paid from the oil-spill settlement: the East Orleans Landbridge, a nine-mile marsh restoration between Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne budgeted at $109.4 million, and Raccoon Island, a $156.3 million barrier-island rebuild. Crews will place millions of cubic yards of sediment to restore up to 1,700 acres of wetland, beach and dune — habitat for birds, fish and shellfish, and a living buffer that takes energy out of storm surge before it reaches people's homes.

SDG 15 · Life on land — Mechanism: infrastructure build