The Holy Cross Neighborhood in the Lower Ninth Ward wants to restore the area north of Florida Avenue, which is open water and degraded wetland between the Inner Coastal Waterway and Florida Avenue. Long-term goals for the community are to turn it into a nature center with bird walks, bike trails, hiking trails, canoeing in the bayou, and to restore of the cypress swamp that was once native in this location. The WRM project will include working with the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board, the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, the Army Corps of Engineers on a wetland restoration feasibility study. We will also work with the University of Colorado’s Landscape Architecture Department and the Sierra Club in developing preliminary plans for development of a nature preserve.
Herb Wang, professor of geophysics and Associate Dean of L&S, and his class look forward to seeing you and other UW alums
when we are down there next summer.
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