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Black Bayou Mitigation Bank
Catahoula Parish
 Black Bayou Bank Map
Black Bayou Mitigation Bank is located in northeast Catahoula Parish five miles southwest of Sicily Island. The 2,504-acre tract is located along the northern banks of Bayou Louis/Lake Louise.
The Bank intends to serve as a mitigation area offering for sale restoration credits as compensation for unavoidable impacts to wetlands associated with permits issued by the Vicksburg District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Tensas River, Ouachita River and Black River Watersheds for:
Bottomland hardwoods
Baldcypress swamp
This project will primarily serve the watershed within Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia, Jackson, La Salle, Morehouse, Ouachita and Union Parishes.
Bank: Black Bayou Mitigation Bank
Location: Catahoula Parish, Louisiana
Project Size: Over 2,500 acres in 4 phases
Service Area: HUC 08040207
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Black Bayou Mitigation Bank Phase I restored and protected 577 acres of agricultural land and was approved on August 19, 2008. Phase II, approved at end March 2009, added 115.1 acres of restored wetlands and included 3.74 miles of stream restoration -- Louisiana’s first stream bank. Just three months later, we increased mitigation activities significantly with the Phase III addition of over 613 acres of restored, prior-converted croplands. With Phase IV now online, some 2,504 contiguous acres of wetland and stream restoration projects are included in the Mitigation Bank Restoration Plan, representing one of the largest areas of mitigation activity in Louisiana, with a primary service area defined by USGS Hydrologic Cataloging Unit 08040207, the Lower Ouachita Drainage Basin.
Reforestation will enhance retention of storm water and minimize erosion and sedimentation of neighboring waters. Restoring the Site to native forests will eliminate applications of fertilizers to the land and will reduce nitrogen and phosphorus runoff to the surrounding ecosystem. The increase in structural diversity will also provide shading, an important factor in keeping water temperature cool, and will reduce high velocity sheet flow across the soil surface while increasing biofiltration.
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