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Lake Long Mitigation Bank
Lafourche Parish
 Lake Long Mitigation Bank Map
Lake Long Coastal Mitigation Bank is located within Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. The Bank is located on Lake Long Drive off Highway 316 approximately 6 miles east of Houma, Louisiana. The site is approximately 1.5 miles north of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and approximately 2 miles west of Lake Long. Approximately 154 acres property currently falls within the spatial limits of the Louisiana Coastal Conservation Boundary (Coastal Zone).
The Bank intends to serve as a mitigation area offering for sale restoration credits as compensation for unavoidable impacts to wetlands associated with Coastal Use Permits (CUP) and permits issued by the New Orleans District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the West Central Louisiana Coastal Watershed for:
� Fresh Marsh
� Baldcypress - Tupelo Swamp
� Bottomland Hardwood
This project will serve Ascension, Assumption, Iberia, Iberville, LaFourche, St. Martin, St. Mary & Terrebonne Parishes.
Bank: Lake Long Coastal Mitigation Bank
Location: Lafourche Parish, Louisiana
Service Area: HUC 08090302
Project Size: 284 acres
RIBITS: http://216.83.232.125:443/pls/htmldb/f?p=101:10:3497806611116657::NO::P10_BANK_ID:905
The mitigation area consists primarily of active cattle pasture with dominant vegetation consisting of Bahiagrass, Vaseys Grass, Dallisgrass, Bermudagrass, Flatsedges, Sedges, Sacatrapo, Barnyardgrass, Cocklebur and Annual Marshelder. The site contains several drainages which contain Alligatorweed, Dotted Smartweed, Rushes and Black Willow. Drainage ditches adjacent to the levee contain similar species as well as Chinese Tallowtree. There are two isolated stands of Baldcypress and one stand of Black Willow.
By reintroducing natural, tidal influence hydrology to the area, wetland functions and values associated with forested wetlands and freshwater marshes will be re-established. These functions and values included enhanced groundwater quality, the ability to absorb excess nutrients before they reach the Gulf of Mexico and downstream estuaries while providing vital food and habitat for various fish and wildlife species.
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Lake Long Mitigation Bank