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Marshfield Boat Landing completed, other projects visited today

Friday, April 28, 2006
Marshfield Boat Landing, one of several boat landing improvement projects in the Atchafalaya Basin. Shown here at the recent ribbon-cutting; a host of community leaders, friends, and ABP Exec. Director Sandra Thompson.

Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Iberia Parish officials held a ribbon-cutting today to mark the completion of construction work at the Marshfield Boat Landing.   

The project was constructed in three phases, with the final phase furnishing security lighting, an open air pavilion, rest rooms, and a water well. The construction amount for this phase of work was $121,500.  

Phases 1 and 2 increased the size of the landing from one to two, built bulk-heading, increased the size of parking areas and provided lighting around the area. DNR’s Atchafalaya Basin Program funded the project with Iberia parish government on a 50-50 cost share basis.  The project was designed by Freyou, Moore, and Associates of Baton Rouge, and the contractor was CASCO Construction Company of St. Martinville.

Following the ribbon-cutting event, State Representative Sydnie Mae Durand, New Iberia Mayor Hilda Curry and Atchafalaya Basin Program Director Sandra Thompson joined a crowd of participants for a Spring Tour of two projects located in New Iberia where improvements were underway at the Steamboat Warehouse and the Bayou Teche Museum.

 

 

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