Heavy equipment, dredge rebuild Louisiana barrier island

An excavator moves rocks weighing 5,000 to 12,000 pounds from a barge to protect a Louisiana barrier island from waves, with the ruins of an 1840s fort to the right. Contractors are at work on a $102 million Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority project to add about 400 acres of beach, dune and marshland to Grand Terre Island. Weather permitting, they hope to finish in November.

But, like East Grand Terre Island, where some of the BP oil spill's iconic images were made, West Grand Terre was heavily oiled during the 2010 spill and was severely eroded before that. The two islands were one when Jean Lafitte and his Baratarian pirates made Grand Terre and nearby Grand Isle their headquarters, but now are more than a mile apart.

The U.S. government evicted Lafitte and his crew to build Fort Livingston, one of a chain of coastal forts created after the War of 1812. Fort Livingston was never completed and is now a ruin on West Grand Terre. The island’s outline won’t change greatly, because much of the sand will go on top of it. That will raise an island that averages 1 foot above sea level, with a maximum of 4 feet, to as much as 8 feet above sea level, said Brett Borne, project engineer for Coastal Engineering Consultants, Inc.

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