Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES
Part I - Office of the Secretary
Subpart 1 - General
Chapter 7 - Coastal Management
Subchapter B - Coastal Use Guidelines
Section I-703 - Guidelines for Levees

Universal Citation: LA Admin Code I-703

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

A. The leveeing of unmodified or biologically productive wetlands shall be avoided to the maximum extent practicable.

B. Levees shall be planned and sited to avoid segmentation of wetland areas and systems to the maximum extent practicable.

C. Levees constructed for the purpose of developing or otherwise changing the use of a wetland area shall be avoided to the maximum extent practicable.

D. Hurricane and flood protection levees shall be located at the nonwetland/wetland interface or landward to the maximum extent practicable.

E. Impoundment levees shall only be constructed in wetland areas as part of approved water or marsh management projects or to prevent release of pollutants.

F. Hurricane or flood protection levee systems shall be designed, built and thereafter operated and maintained utilizing best practical techniques to minimize disruptions of existing hydrologic patterns, and the interchange of water, beneficial nutrients, and aquatic organisms between enclosed wetlands and those outside the levee system.

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 49:214.27.

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