Using sediment pumped from Lake Pontchartrain, the Bayou Bonfouca and Fritchie Marsh Creation project will create over 800 acres of low salinity brackish marsh and some bottomland hardwood forest in what is now open water ponds. Restoration of this wetland area will improve shoreline stability for residents of St. Tammany Parish, and support waterfowl and estuarine fish habitat for future generations.
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