Louisiana’s Coastal Master plan focuses on restoring and protecting the coast: Building levees, marshes and land. But even with those investments, the state still expects to deal with flooding in the future. Many communities are still going to have to figure out how adapt for the long term.
The state has a program that’s tasked with addressing all that. It’s called LA SAFE — and they’ve got about $40 million to invest in coastal projects.
Over the last couple of months, LA SAFE has been holding community meetings in six coastal parishes — Plaquemines, Lafourche, Terrebonne, St. John the Baptist, Jefferson and St. Tammany. The final round of meetings kicks off Wednesday in Houma.
WWNO’s Travis Lux sat down with Mat Sanders from LA SAFE to talk about the program.
You can find a full list of meeting locations and times at lasafe.la.gov.
Funding for the Coastal Desk comes from the Walton Family Foundation, the Coypu Foundation, the Greater New Orleans Foundation, and local listeners.
