Bayou Bridge Oil Export Pipeline

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Bayou Bridge Oil Export Pipeline

USACE Water Management Units

Bayou Fisher

Open Cuts to streams could be avoided, will clog drainage

Wetland Impacts ciricled in Black

Green are Mitigation Banks

Light Green are Spoil Bank Mitigation for Westward Ho

Red are wetland impact locations

Blue are USACE Water Management Units

The Pipeline would cross only 40 feet under Bayou Lafourche,

drinking water for 300,000 people

and fresh water for 120,000 acres of salt marsh

Affecting lands of the United Houma Nation

The pipeline would cross thousands of acres of farmland,

rendering more and more rice fields out of production.

It would pass under the Mermentau River

Freshwater for valuable coastal marshes that soak up

hurricane surge from Southwest Louisiana.

The Right of Way would restrict the flow of water in deep Swamps of Flat Lake

silting in valuable crawfishing forests

turning swamp into hardwood or even tallow forest

It will be mitigated north of the Basin with more hardwood forest

The pipeline would be the largest wetland fill

in Acadia and Lafayette Parishes

in four years, filling valuable floodplains.

Acadia and Lafayette are still recovering

from the Gulf rains of August 2016.

Map created by

Gulf Restoration Network