2 Parishes Receive $900K In Grants

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — More than $900,000 in grants have been awarded to Vermilion and St. Martin parishes by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement.

BOEMRE awarded four Coastal Impact Assistance

Program grants totaling $1.3 million to Louisiana coastal communities for projects that prevent coastal erosion, develop conservation education opportunities and improve coastal transportation infrastructure.

The four grants are:

—$469,416 to reconstruct or rehabilitate four roadways in the Intracoastal City area.

—$441,999 to construct and widen Charlie Field Road near Erath.

—$47,950 for the design and planning of an open air educational outreach pavilion and nature trail in Henderson along the eastern shoreline of Bayou Amy.

—$350,000 for Phase I of a multiphase project that will prevent continued erosion and repair breaching along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway caused by Hurricane Rita's storm surge.