Green Options » Bayou Bienvenue http://greenoptions.com/tag/bayou-bienvenue Posts tagged 'Bayou Bienvenue' Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:49:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en UW-Madison Students to Restore Bayou in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/06/05/uw-madison-students-to-restore-bayou-in-new-orleans-lower-ninth-ward/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/06/05/uw-madison-students-to-restore-bayou-in-new-orleans-lower-ninth-ward/#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:49:21 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/06/05/uw-madison-students-to-restore-bayou-in-new-orleans-lower-ninth-ward/ A view of the Lower Ninth Ward, pre-Katrina. (Image credit: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Wikimedia Commons, public domain.)This summer, a group of students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to travel to New Orleans to help restore an urban wetland in the Lower Ninth Ward, a neighborhood decimated by flooding after the post-Katrina levee failures.

The group of nine students expect to study Bayou Bienvenue, testing water, surveying vegetation and researching whether the area could be restored with a diversion dam that would help bring in fresh water and sediment. They also plan to talk with neighborhood residents about their concerns and will even host a crab boil to involve the community.

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