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Lake Barre - East Timbalier Island
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NOAA Restoration Center
Damage Assessment Restoration Program
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Lake Barre - East Timbalier Island
On May 16, 1997 approximately 275, 562 gallons of crude oil were released in Lake Barre, Louisiana as result of a pipeline rupture. Approximately 18.6 acres of Spartina alterniflora will be planted on a 130-acre marsh platform on East Timbalier Island (this island is being restored as part of a CWPPRA project) to restore areas of marsh that were previously oiled by the 1997 release of crude oil. Under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment Restoration requirement the goal is to plant both Spartina alterniflora and Spartina patens in strip platforms on the marsh platform.
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Lake Barre-East Timbalier Island
Restoration
Newly planted smooth cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora, is colonizing at thehigh intertidal zone at the Lake Barre restoration site.
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Newly planted smooth cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora, is inundated bythe incoming tide.
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A close-up view of the seed heads on a newly planted marsh hay cordgrass,Spartina patens, plant. S patens was planted at the Lake Barre restoration siteto stabilize high marsh areas.
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Smooth cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora, at low tide
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Smooth cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora, flourishes at the western end of therestoration site, Lake Barre, East Timbalier Island.
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The left hand portion of this image shows the natural marsh at Lake Barre,the foreground shows the newly planted S. alterniflora seedlings beginning tocolonize.
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Smooth cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora, a salt marsh plant native to the areais planted in rows to encourage rapid colonization of the restoration areaand to prevent erosion of the newly created marsh platform.
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