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This post is a write up of the Frac Sand Tools for Action Event that was hosted at the Raw Deal in Menomonie, WI on August 4th, 2015.

During the event we went over:

1) What brought us to this point, a follow up on the DustHack event from October 2014. .
2) A review of relevant policies.
3) Updates to the low cost dust sensor project.
4) Introduction to low cost water sensing tools.
5) A discussion of advocacy approaches to the frac sand issue.

Advocacy Strategies

We spent some time identifying what advocacy strategies have been successful facing the frac sand issue in the past, and ideas for new advocacy approaches in the future. working to strategize on the best approaches we should take, we voted to sort out how easy and effective each approach would be. Below is a table of what we came up with:

Level of Difficulty	Level of Effectiveness	Advocacy Strategy
Medium	Effective	Get people who support our cause on commissions and boards
Medium	Effective	Low cost monitors to engage the public and put pressure on the company for more oversight
Easy	Might be effective	Write letters to legislators and town board members
Medium	Effective	Support anti-hydraulic fracturing movement and everyone affected by the supply chain
Medium	Effective	Multi-pronged approach- economic impacts of road use, impacts on tourism etc.
Easy	Effective	Aerial images of changing landscape
Easy	Effective	Images of runoff in streams
Hard	Might be effective	Leverage peer-pressure at county level for counties that are less inclined to test or enforce
Easy	Effective	High profile contaminant highlighting
Medium	Effective	Produce white papers with accredited labs to give authority to findings
Medium	Effective	Get plain english briefs about rules, regulations and relevant scientific findings to empower citizens
Hard	Effective	Political advocacy
Medium	Effective	Work with open minded media contacts

Next steps identified from this event in moving forward include:

This post is a write up of the Frac Sand Tools for Action Event that was hosted at the Raw Deal in Menomonie, WI on August 4th, 2015.

During the event we went over:

1) What brought us to this point, a follow up on the DustHack event from October 2014. . 2) A review of relevant policies. 3) Updates to the low cost dust sensor project. 4) Introduction to low cost water sensing tools. 5) A discussion of advocacy approaches to the frac sand issue.

Advocacy Strategies

We spent some time identifying what advocacy strategies have been successful facing the frac sand issue in the past, and ideas for new advocacy approaches in the future. working to strategize on the best approaches we should take, we voted to sort out how easy and effective each approach would be. Below is a table of what we came up with:

Level of Difficulty	Level of Effectiveness	Advocacy Strategy
Medium	Effective	Get people who support our cause on commissions and boards
Medium	Effective	Low cost monitors to engage the public and put pressure on the company for more oversight
Easy	Might be effective	Write letters to legislators and town board members
Medium	Effective	Support anti-hydraulic fracturing movement and everyone affected by the supply chain
Medium	Effective	Multi-pronged approach- economic impacts of road use, impacts on tourism etc.
Easy	Effective	Aerial images of changing landscape
Easy	Effective	Images of runoff in streams
Hard	Might be effective	Leverage peer-pressure at county level for counties that are less inclined to test or enforce
Easy	Effective	High profile contaminant highlighting
Medium	Effective	Produce white papers with accredited labs to give authority to findings
Medium	Effective	Get plain english briefs about rules, regulations and relevant scientific findings to empower citizens
Hard	Effective	Political advocacy
Medium	Effective	Work with open minded media contacts

Next steps identified from this event in moving forward include:

This post is a write up of the Frac Sand Tools for Action Event that was hosted at the Raw Deal in Menomonie WI on August 4th, 2015.

During the event we went over:

1) What brought us to this point, a follow up on the DustHack event from October 2014. . 2) A review of relevant policies. 3) Updates to the low cost dust sensor project. 4) Introduction to low cost water sensing tools. 5) A discussion of advocacy approaches to the frac sand issue.

Advocacy Strategies

We spent some time identifying what advocacy strategies have been successful facing the frac sand issue in the past, and ideas for new advocacy approaches in the future. working to strategize on the best approaches we should take, we voted to sort out how easy and effective each approach would be. Below is a table of what we came up with:

Level of Difficulty	Level of Effectiveness	Advocacy Strategy
Medium	Effective	Get people who support our cause on commissions and boards
Medium	Effective	Low cost monitors to engage the public and put pressure on the company for more oversight
Easy	Might be effective	Write letters to legislators and town board members
Medium	Effective	Support anti-hydraulic fracturing movement and everyone affected by the supply chain
Medium	Effective	Multi-pronged approach- economic impacts of road use, impacts on tourism etc.
Easy	Effective	Aerial images of changing landscape
Easy	Effective	Images of runoff in streams
Hard	Might be effective	Leverage peer-pressure at county level for counties that are less inclined to test or enforce
Easy	Effective	High profile contaminant highlighting
Medium	Effective	Produce white papers with accredited labs to give authority to findings
Medium	Effective	Get plain english briefs about rules, regulations and relevant scientific findings to empower citizens
Hard	Effective	Political advocacy
Medium	Effective	Work with open minded media contacts

Get people who support our cause on commissions and boards Low cost monitors

Next steps identified from this event in moving forward include:

This post is a write up of the Frac Sand Tools for Action Event that was hosted at the Raw Deal in Menomonie WI on August 4th, 2015.

During the event we went over:

1) What brought us to this point, a follow up on the DustHack event from October 2014. . 2) A review of relevant policies. 3) Updates to the low cost dust sensor project. 4) Introduction to low cost water sensing tools. 5) A discussion of advocacy approaches to the frac sand issue.

Advocacy Strategies

We spent some time identifying what advocacy strategies have been successful facing the frac sand issue in the past, and ideas for new advocacy approaches in the future. working to strategize on the best approaches we should take, we voted to sort out how easy and effective each approach would be. Below is a table of what we came up with:

Item ID	Item Name	Item Price
Medium	Effective	Get people who support our cause on commissions and boards
Medium	Effective	Low cost monitors to engage the public and put pressure on the company for more oversight
Easy	Might be effective	Write letters to legislators and town board members
Medium	Effective	Support anti-hydraulic fracturing movement and everyone affected by the supply chain
Medium	Effective	Multi-pronged approach- economic impacts of road use, impacts on tourism etc.
Easy	Effective	Aerial images of changing landscape
Easy	Effective	Images of runoff in streams
Hard	Might be effective	Leverage peer-pressure at county level for counties that are less inclined to test or enforce
Easy	Effective	High profile contaminant highlighting
Medium	Effective	Produce white papers with accredited labs to give authority to findings
Medium	Effective	Get plain english briefs about rules, regulations and relevant scientific findings to empower citizens
Hard	Effective	Political advocacy
Medium	Effective	Work with open minded media contacts

Get people who support our cause on commissions and boards Low cost monitors

Next steps identified from this event in moving forward include:

This post is a write up of the Frac Sand Tools for Action Event that was hosted at the Raw Deal in Menomonie WI on August 4th, 2015.

During the event we went over:

1) What brought us to this point, a follow up on the DustHack event from October 2014. . 2) A review of relevant policies. 3) Updates to the low cost dust sensor project. 4) Introduction to low cost water sensing tools. 5) A discussion of advocacy approaches to the frac sand issue.

Advocacy Strategies

We spent some time identifying what advocacy strategies have been successful facing the frac sand issue in the past, and ideas for new advocacy approaches in the future. working to strategize on the best approaches we should take, we voted to sort out how easy and effective each approach would be. Below is a table of what we came up with:

Item ID	Item Name	Item Price
Medium	Effective	Get people who support our cause on commissions and boards
Medium	Effective	Low cost monitors to engage the public and put pressure on the company for more oversight
Easy	Might be effective	Write letters to legislators and town board members
Medium	Effective	Support anti-hydraulic fracturing movement and everyone affected by the supply chain
Medium	Effective	Multi-pronged approach- economic impacts of road use, impacts on tourism etc.
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Get people who support our cause on commissions and boards Low cost monitors

Next steps identified from this event in moving forward include:

This post is a write up of the Frac Sand Tools for Action Event that was hosted at the Raw Deal in Menomonie WI on August 4th, 2015.

During the event we went over:

1) What brought us to this point, a follow up on the DustHack event from October 2014. . 2) A review of relevant policies. 3) Updates to the low cost dust sensor project. 4) Introduction to low cost water sensing tools. 5) A discussion of advocacy approaches to the frac sand issue.

Advocacy Strategies

We spent some time identifying what advocacy strategies have been successful facing the frac sand issue in the past, and ideas for new advocacy approaches in the future. working to strategize on the best approaches we should take, we voted to sort out how easy and effective each approach would be. Below is a table of what we came up with:

Item ID	Item Name	Item Price
Medium	Effective	Get people who support our cause on commissions and boards
Medium	Effective	Low cost monitors to engage the public and put pressure on the company for more oversight
Easy	Might be effective	Write letters to legislators and town board members
Medium	Effective	Support anti-hydraulic fracturing movement and everyone affected by the supply chain
Medium	Effective	Multi-pronged approach- economic impacts of road use, impacts on tourism etc.
SPACE	SPACE	SPACE
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SPACE	SPACE	SPACE
SPACE	SPACE	SPACE
SPACE	SPACE	SPACE
SPACE	SPACE	SPACE

Get people who support our cause on commissions and boards Low cost monitors

Next steps identified from this event in moving forward include:

Welcome to the New Orleans Urban Waters Restoration Mapping Project page. This project was funded in part by the EPA Urban Waters Small Grant Program. This community mapping project aimed to maps eight urban restoration sites around New Orleans. Learn more about the sites and visit the maps made in this project below!

Interested in monitoring a wetland site? Check out the Wetlands Toolkit!

About the project

This data from this project has been collected, compiled and organized by volunteer efforts of the New Orleans Public Lab Community. Between 2014 and 2015 Gulf Coast Public Labbers work to map the eight urban water restoration sites twice. This page hosts the maps and images that came from the proejct. Read more about our project in this article by Chris Staudinger from the NOLA Defender and this research note.

Overall

• 33 data sets were collected of the eight wetland sites amounting to over 25,000 images,
• 367 community researchers participated in this project,
• 18 maps were created, along with 7 pole map collages, and
• 33 Gulf Coast meet-ups were held to support the efforts of this project.

Project Partners and Collaborators:

Audubon Nature Institute Nature Center - Backyard Gardeners Network - Broadmoor Improvement Association - Gulf Restoration Network - Louisiana State University AgCenter - Rosa F. Keller Public Library and Community Center - Groundwork New Orleans - IDIYA - LaBranch Wetland Watchers - Lake Pontchartrain Basin Association - Louisiana Master Naturalists - New Orleans Center for Creative Arts - New Orleans Sewer and Water Board - Propeller - Waggonner and Ball Architects - Water Works

Mapping sites around New Orleans

• Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain
• Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway
• Stormwater Wetlands at City Park
• Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration
• Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant
• South Shore Restoration Site
• Louisiana Nature Center
• Wetland Watcher's Park

Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain

Bayou St John is an urban Scenic River and site of post-Katrina saltwater marsh restoration, including many locations of urban shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species in coordination with the Bayou St John Scenic river restoration plan, the LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, and many community partners. In part due to these improvements, the area is becoming an increasingly popular urban recreation destination. Detailed documentation can encourage continued restoration and maintenance of existing restoration efforts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/11/14	Mapknitter Map	Dan Beavers, Dan Henry and Brandi Caro	Joneya Thompson, Catherine Nguyen and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
5/30/15	Mapknitter Map	David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King	Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

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Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway

Bayou St John Scenic Urban Waterway is a site of urban shoreline re-vegetation. The site is an increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation of tremendously varied kinds, from dog walking to canoeing and kayaking to fishing, boat races and musical festivals. With high public interest and participation through this project, detailed documentation will encourage the continued restoration and maintenance of restoration efforts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
11/11/14	Pole Mapping Collage	Scott Eustis	Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
1/24/15	Pole Mapping Collage	Lauren Sullivan, Grace Cagle, Mica, Troy, Diana Di Leonardo, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

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Stormwater Wetlands at City Park

Stormwater Wetlands in City Park is a site that embodies many of New Orleans’ urban water issues and goals. The area is subject to much subsidence and ongoing problems from unmanaged stormwater. The "Living with Water" strategy re-envisions water infrastructure as aesthetic, ecological, and geological improvements, and a way to reduce damages from flooding and induced subsidence, and increase property values and quality of life. In an attempt to create a pilot project for the Living with Water scenario, City Park and LSU AgCenter created a stormwater wetland here.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/20/14	Mapknitter Map	Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis	Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/20/14	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis	Jack Faust, Meghan Speakman and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
5/30/15	Mapknitter Map	David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King	Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
5/30/15	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King	David Flores and Liz Barry

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Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration

Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration site shows the marsh shorelines are an aesthetic and ecological improvement to the armored, rubbled, and/or eroded banklines there were historically in place. Community planting of this rubble shoreline was begun during the government shutdown in 2013, and the bullrush have begun to flourish. There is a great deal of community activity and interest in the site for recreation and educational uses.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/10/15	Pole Mapping Collage	Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/10/15	Near Infrared Pole Mapping Collage	Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

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Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant

Bayou Bienvenue/Central Wetlands Treated Biosolids Restoration is a site with a lot of interest! Bayou Bienvenue is an urban, intermediate Bayou and the Bayou Bienvenue wetland triangle (BBWT) is an adjacent former Cypress swamp destroyed by impoundment and saltwater intrusion. Post-Katrina, the site has been subjected to saltwater marsh restoration attempts of many kinds, including created wetlands for biosolids and wastewater treatment, and shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species, and proposals for additional mechanical fill for hardwood, swamp, and emergent marsh as well as and floating marsh restoration. These various restoration efforts have been done in coordination with Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, Common Ground Wetlands program, LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, National Wildlife Federation, visiting Universities, and many other national and community partners. Due to these improvements and attention, the Bayou is increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation, from fishing to canoeing and kayaking and hunting.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/11/14	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Gerald McCollam, Leslie Williams, Molly Gordon and Claire Loudis	Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/10/15	Mapknitter Map	Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis	Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

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South Shore Restoration Site

South Shore Marsh Restoration site includes several dispersed community restoration plantings of Spartina alterniflora done in New Orleans East on the south shore of the oligohaline Lake Pontchartrain. These plantings have persisted through several named coastal storms in 2008 and 2012, and provide habitat for estuarine species along an otherwise neglected urban shoreline. These marshes, while small, have persisted beyond their project life, despite being in a high-energy shoreline line in relatively deep water. The site provides an example of how other armored shorelines in the New Orleans metro area can increase habitat value with relatively small, garden-scale, community-based efforts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
4/18/15	Pole Mapping Collage	Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
4/18/15	Near Infrared Pole Mapping Collage	Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

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Louisiana Nature Center

The Louisiana Nature Center is an urban site of post-Katrina cypress forest restoration, which includes invasive tallow control and cypress planting efforts. The wetland site is under considerable drainage of the New Orleans East Polder, but still provides forest canopy for migrating birds. Many hope that this site will flourish as a restored cypress forest. There is a long history of naturalist interest in this site, and a long record of weekly bird counts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/11/14	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Scott Eustis, Tim McLean, Lauren Sullivan and Amy LeGaux	Scott Eustis and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
6/9/15	Mapknitter Map	Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis	Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
6/9/15	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis	Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

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Wetland Watchers Park

Wetland Watchers Park is an educational and recreational park reclaimed from the Lake Pontchartrain bottom. It is the site of a reforestation project between the Bonnet Carre Spillway and Bayou LaBranche, as well as historic and recent marsh restoration projects. This swamp and marsh site (formerly a freshwater swamp, with a remnant canopy) is subject to much shoreline erosion and ecological change, as well as freshwater inputs from Bayou LaBranche and the Bonnet Carre Spillway. The park facilities themselves are designed to be flooded, as they were during Hurricane Isaac in 2012. The park is regularly used by New Orleans area grade and high schools for wetland education.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
12/13/14	Mapknitter Map	Will Veatch, Gerald McCollam, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis	Alexis Smith, Lauren Alleman and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/11/15	Mapknitter Map	Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo	Scott Eustis and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/11/15	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo	Liz Barry

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Welcome to the New Orleans Urban Waters Restoration Mapping Project page. This project was funded in part by the EPA Urban Waters Small Grant Program. This community mapping project aimed to maps eight urban restoration sites around New Orleans. Learn more about the sites and visit the maps made in this project below!

Interested in monitoring a wetland site? Check out the Wetlands Toolkit!

About the project

This data from this project has been collected, compiled and organized by volunteer efforts of the New Orleans Public Lab Community. Between 2014 and 2015 Gulf Coast Public Labbers work to map the eight urban water restoration sites twice. This page hosts the maps and images that came from the proejct. Read more about our project in this article by Chris Staudinger from the NOLA Defender and this research note.

Overall

• 33 data sets were collected of the eight wetland sites amounting to over 25,000 images,
• 367 community researchers participated in this project,
• 18 maps were created, along with 7 pole map collages, and
• 33 Gulf Coast meet-ups were held to support the efforts of this project.

Project Partners and Collaborators:

Audubon Nature Institute Nature Center - Backyard Gardeners Network - Broadmoor Improvement Association - Gulf Restoration Network - Louisiana State University AgCenter - Rosa F. Keller Public Library and Community Center - Groundwork New Orleans - IDIYA - LaBranch Wetland Watchers - Lake Pontchartrain Basin Association - Louisiana Master Naturalists - New Orleans Center for Creative Arts - New Orleans Sewer and Water Board - Propeller - Waggonner and Ball Architects - Water Works

Mapping sites around New Orleans

• Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain
• Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway
• Stormwater Wetlands at City Park
• Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration
• Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant
• South Shore Restoration Site
• Louisiana Nature Center
• Wetland Watcher's Park

Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain

Bayou St John is an urban Scenic River and site of post-Katrina saltwater marsh restoration, including many locations of urban shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species in coordination with the Bayou St John Scenic river restoration plan, the LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, and many community partners. In part due to these improvements, the area is becoming an increasingly popular urban recreation destination. Detailed documentation can encourage continued restoration and maintenance of existing restoration efforts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/11/14	Mapknitter Map	Dan Beavers, Dan Henry and Brandi Caro	Joneya Thompson, Catherine Nguyen and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
5/30/15	Mapknitter Map	David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King	Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

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Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway

Bayou St John Scenic Urban Waterway is a site of urban shoreline re-vegetation. The site is an increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation of tremendously varied kinds, from dog walking to canoeing and kayaking to fishing, boat races and musical festivals. With high public interest and participation through this project, detailed documentation will encourage the continued restoration and maintenance of restoration efforts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
11/11/14	Pole Mapping Collage	Scott Eustis	Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
1/24/15	Pole Mapping Collage	Lauren Sullivan, Grace Cagle, Mica, Troy, Diana Di Leonardo, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

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Stormwater Wetlands at City Park

Stormwater Wetlands in City Park is a site that embodies many of New Orleans’ urban water issues and goals. The area is subject to much subsidence and ongoing problems from unmanaged stormwater. The "Living with Water" strategy re-envisions water infrastructure as aesthetic, ecological, and geological improvements, and a way to reduce damages from flooding and induced subsidence, and increase property values and quality of life. In an attempt to create a pilot project for the Living with Water scenario, City Park and LSU AgCenter created a stormwater wetland here.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/20/14	Mapknitter Map	Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis	Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/20/14	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis	Jack Faust, Meghan Speakman and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
5/30/15	Mapknitter Map	David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King	Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
5/30/15	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King	David Flores and Liz Barry

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Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration

Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration site shows the marsh shorelines are an aesthetic and ecological improvement to the armored, rubbled, and/or eroded banklines there were historically in place. Community planting of this rubble shoreline was begun during the government shutdown in 2013, and the bullrush have begun to flourish. There is a great deal of community activity and interest in the site for recreation and educational uses.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/10/15	Pole Mapping Collage	Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/10/15	Near Infrared Pole Mapping Collage	Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

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Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant

Bayou Bienvenue/Central Wetlands Treated Biosolids Restoration is a site with a lot of interest! Bayou Bienvenue is an urban, intermediate Bayou and the Bayou Bienvenue wetland triangle (BBWT) is an adjacent former Cypress swamp destroyed by impoundment and saltwater intrusion. Post-Katrina, the site has been subjected to saltwater marsh restoration attempts of many kinds, including created wetlands for biosolids and wastewater treatment, and shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species, and proposals for additional mechanical fill for hardwood, swamp, and emergent marsh as well as and floating marsh restoration. These various restoration efforts have been done in coordination with Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, Common Ground Wetlands program, LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, National Wildlife Federation, visiting Universities, and many other national and community partners. Due to these improvements and attention, the Bayou is increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation, from fishing to canoeing and kayaking and hunting.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/11/14	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Gerald McCollam, Leslie Williams, Molly Gordon and Claire Loudis	Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/10/15	Mapknitter Map	Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis	Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

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South Shore Restoration Site

South Shore Marsh Restoration site includes several dispersed community restoration plantings of Spartina alterniflora done in New Orleans East on the south shore of the oligohaline Lake Pontchartrain. These plantings have persisted through several named coastal storms in 2008 and 2012, and provide habitat for estuarine species along an otherwise neglected urban shoreline. These marshes, while small, have persisted beyond their project life, despite being in a high-energy shoreline line in relatively deep water. The site provides an example of how other armored shorelines in the New Orleans metro area can increase habitat value with relatively small, garden-scale, community-based efforts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
4/18/15	Pole Mapping Collage	Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

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XXXXX Collected | Type | Mappers | Cartographers :-----------------------|:--------------------------|:---------------------|:---------------------- 4/18/15 | Near Infrared Pole Mapping Collage | Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis | Liz Barry

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Louisiana Nature Center

The Louisiana Nature Center is an urban site of post-Katrina cypress forest restoration, which includes invasive tallow control and cypress planting efforts. The wetland site is under considerable drainage of the New Orleans East Polder, but still provides forest canopy for migrating birds. Many hope that this site will flourish as a restored cypress forest. There is a long history of naturalist interest in this site, and a long record of weekly bird counts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/11/14	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Scott Eustis, Tim McLean, Lauren Sullivan and Amy LeGaux	Scott Eustis and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
6/9/15	Mapknitter Map	Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis	Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
6/9/15	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis	Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

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Wetland Watchers Park

Wetland Watchers Park is an educational and recreational park reclaimed from the Lake Pontchartrain bottom. It is the site of a reforestation project between the Bonnet Carre Spillway and Bayou LaBranche, as well as historic and recent marsh restoration projects. This swamp and marsh site (formerly a freshwater swamp, with a remnant canopy) is subject to much shoreline erosion and ecological change, as well as freshwater inputs from Bayou LaBranche and the Bonnet Carre Spillway. The park facilities themselves are designed to be flooded, as they were during Hurricane Isaac in 2012. The park is regularly used by New Orleans area grade and high schools for wetland education.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
12/13/14	Mapknitter Map	Will Veatch, Gerald McCollam, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis	Alexis Smith, Lauren Alleman and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/11/15	Mapknitter Map	Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo	Scott Eustis and Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/11/15	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo	Liz Barry

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Welcome to the New Orleans Urban Waters Restoration Mapping Project page. This project was funded in part by the EPA Urban Waters Small Grant Program. This community mapping project aimed to maps eight urban restoration sites around New Orleans. Learn more about the sites and visit the maps made in this project below!

Interested in monitoring a wetland site? Check out the Wetlands Toolkit!

About the project

This data from this project has been collected, compiled and organized by volunteer efforts of the New Orleans Public Lab Community. Between 2014 and 2015 Gulf Coast Public Labbers work to map the eight urban water restoration sites twice. This page hosts the maps and images that came from the proejct. Read more about our project in this article by Chris Staudinger from the NOLA Defender and this research note.

Overall

• 33 data sets were collected of the eight wetland sites amounting to over 25,000 images,
• 367 community researchers participated in this project,
• 18 maps were created, along with 7 pole map collages, and
• 33 Gulf Coast meet-ups were held to support the efforts of this project.

Project Partners and Collaborators:

Audubon Nature Institute Nature Center - Backyard Gardeners Network - Broadmoor Improvement Association - Gulf Restoration Network - Louisiana State University AgCenter - Rosa F. Keller Public Library and Community Center - Groundwork New Orleans - IDIYA - LaBranch Wetland Watchers - Lake Pontchartrain Basin Association - Louisiana Master Naturalists - New Orleans Center for Creative Arts - New Orleans Sewer and Water Board - Propeller - Waggonner and Ball Architects - Water Works

Mapping sites around New Orleans

• Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain
• Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway
• Stormwater Wetlands at City Park
• Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration
• Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant
• South Shore Restoration Site
• Louisiana Nature Center
• Wetland Watcher's Park

Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain

Bayou St John is an urban Scenic River and site of post-Katrina saltwater marsh restoration, including many locations of urban shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species in coordination with the Bayou St John Scenic river restoration plan, the LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, and many community partners. In part due to these improvements, the area is becoming an increasingly popular urban recreation destination. Detailed documentation can encourage continued restoration and maintenance of existing restoration efforts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/11/14	Mapknitter Map	Dan Beavers, Dan Henry and Brandi Caro	Joneya Thompson, Catherine Nguyen and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
5/30/15	Mapknitter Map	David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King	Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

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Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway

Bayou St John Scenic Urban Waterway is a site of urban shoreline re-vegetation. The site is an increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation of tremendously varied kinds, from dog walking to canoeing and kayaking to fishing, boat races and musical festivals. With high public interest and participation through this project, detailed documentation will encourage the continued restoration and maintenance of restoration efforts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
11/11/14	Pole Mapping Collage	Scott Eustis	Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
1/24/15	Pole Mapping Collage	Lauren Sullivan, Grace Cagle, Mica, Troy, Diana Di Leonardo, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

---

Stormwater Wetlands at City Park

Stormwater Wetlands in City Park is a site that embodies many of New Orleans’ urban water issues and goals. The area is subject to much subsidence and ongoing problems from unmanaged stormwater. The "Living with Water" strategy re-envisions water infrastructure as aesthetic, ecological, and geological improvements, and a way to reduce damages from flooding and induced subsidence, and increase property values and quality of life. In an attempt to create a pilot project for the Living with Water scenario, City Park and LSU AgCenter created a stormwater wetland here.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/20/14	Mapknitter Map	Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis	Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/20/14	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis	Jack Faust, Meghan Speakman and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
5/30/15	Mapknitter Map	David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King	Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
5/30/15	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King	David Flores and Liz Barry

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Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration

Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration site shows the marsh shorelines are an aesthetic and ecological improvement to the armored, rubbled, and/or eroded banklines there were historically in place. Community planting of this rubble shoreline was begun during the government shutdown in 2013, and the bullrush have begun to flourish. There is a great deal of community activity and interest in the site for recreation and educational uses.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/10/15	Pole Mapping Collage	Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/10/15	Near Infrared Pole Mapping Collage	Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

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Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant

Bayou Bienvenue/Central Wetlands Treated Biosolids Restoration is a site with a lot of interest! Bayou Bienvenue is an urban, intermediate Bayou and the Bayou Bienvenue wetland triangle (BBWT) is an adjacent former Cypress swamp destroyed by impoundment and saltwater intrusion. Post-Katrina, the site has been subjected to saltwater marsh restoration attempts of many kinds, including created wetlands for biosolids and wastewater treatment, and shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species, and proposals for additional mechanical fill for hardwood, swamp, and emergent marsh as well as and floating marsh restoration. These various restoration efforts have been done in coordination with Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, Common Ground Wetlands program, LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, National Wildlife Federation, visiting Universities, and many other national and community partners. Due to these improvements and attention, the Bayou is increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation, from fishing to canoeing and kayaking and hunting.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/11/14	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Gerald McCollam, Leslie Williams, Molly Gordon and Claire Loudis	Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/10/15	Mapknitter Map	Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis	Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

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South Shore Restoration Site

South Shore Marsh Restoration site includes several dispersed community restoration plantings of Spartina alterniflora done in New Orleans East on the south shore of the oligohaline Lake Pontchartrain. These plantings have persisted through several named coastal storms in 2008 and 2012, and provide habitat for estuarine species along an otherwise neglected urban shoreline. These marshes, while small, have persisted beyond their project life, despite being in a high-energy shoreline line in relatively deep water. The site provides an example of how other armored shorelines in the New Orleans metro area can increase habitat value with relatively small, garden-scale, community-based efforts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
4/18/15	Pole Mapping Collage	Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

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XXXXX Collected | Type | Mappers | Cartographers :-----------------------|:--------------------------|:---------------------|:---------------------- 4/18/15 | Near Infrared Pole Mapping Collage | Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis | Liz Barry

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XXXXX

Louisiana Nature Center

The Louisiana Nature Center is an urban site of post-Katrina cypress forest restoration, which includes invasive tallow control and cypress planting efforts. The wetland site is under considerable drainage of the New Orleans East Polder, but still provides forest canopy for migrating birds. Many hope that this site will flourish as a restored cypress forest. There is a long history of naturalist interest in this site, and a long record of weekly bird counts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/11/14	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Scott Eustis, Tim McLean, Lauren Sullivan and Amy LeGaux	Scott Eustis and Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
6/9/15	Mapknitter Map	Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis	Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
6/9/15	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis	Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

---

Wetland Watchers Park

Wetland Watchers Park is an educational and recreational park reclaimed from the Lake Pontchartrain bottom. It is the site of a reforestation project between the Bonnet Carre Spillway and Bayou LaBranche, as well as historic and recent marsh restoration projects. This swamp and marsh site (formerly a freshwater swamp, with a remnant canopy) is subject to much shoreline erosion and ecological change, as well as freshwater inputs from Bayou LaBranche and the Bonnet Carre Spillway. The park facilities themselves are designed to be flooded, as they were during Hurricane Isaac in 2012. The park is regularly used by New Orleans area grade and high schools for wetland education.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
12/13/14	Mapknitter Map	Will Veatch, Gerald McCollam, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis	Alexis Smith, Lauren Alleman and Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/11/15	Mapknitter Map	Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo	Scott Eustis and Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/11/15	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo	Liz Barry

---

Welcome to the New Orleans Urban Waters Restoration Mapping Project page. This project was funded in part by the EPA Urban Waters Small Grant Program. This community mapping project aimed to maps eight urban restoration sites around New Orleans. Learn more about the sites and visit the maps made in this project below!

Interested in monitoring a wetland site? Check out the Wetlands Toolkit!

About the project

This data from this project has been collected, compiled and organized by volunteer efforts of the New Orleans Public Lab Community. Between 2014 and 2015 Gulf Coast Public Labbers work to map the eight urban water restoration sites twice. This page hosts the maps and images that came from the proejct. Read more about our project in this article by Chris Staudinger from the NOLA Defender and this research note. Overall - 33 data sets were collected of the eight wetland sites amounting to over 25,000 images, - 367 community researchers participated in this project, - 18 maps were created, along with 7 pole map collages, and - 33 Gulf Coast meet-ups were held to support the efforts of this project.

Project Partners and Collaborators:

Audubon Nature Institute Nature Center - Backyard Gardeners Network - Broadmoor Improvement Association - Gulf Restoration Network - Louisiana State University AgCenter - Rosa F. Keller Public Library and Community Center - Groundwork New Orleans - IDIYA - LaBranch Wetland Watchers - Lake Pontchartrain Basin Association - Louisiana Master Naturalists - New Orleans Center for Creative Arts - New Orleans Sewer and Water Board - Propeller - Waggonner and Ball Architects - Water Works

Mapping sites around New Orleans

• Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain
• Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway
• Stormwater Wetlands at City Park
• Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration
• Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant
• South Shore Restoration Site
• Louisiana Nature Center
• Wetland Watcher's Park

Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain

Bayou St John is an urban Scenic River and site of post-Katrina saltwater marsh restoration, including many locations of urban shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species in coordination with the Bayou St John Scenic river restoration plan, the LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, and many community partners. In part due to these improvements, the area is becoming an increasingly popular urban recreation destination. Detailed documentation can encourage continued restoration and maintenance of existing restoration efforts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/11/14	Mapknitter Map	Dan Beavers, Dan Henry and Brandi Caro	Joneya Thompson, Catherine Nguyen and Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
5/30/15	Mapknitter Map	David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King	Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

---

Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway

Bayou St John Scenic Urban Waterway is a site of urban shoreline re-vegetation. The site is an increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation of tremendously varied kinds, from dog walking to canoeing and kayaking to fishing, boat races and musical festivals. With high public interest and participation through this project, detailed documentation will encourage the continued restoration and maintenance of restoration efforts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
11/11/14	Pole Mapping Collage	Scott Eustis	Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
1/24/15	Pole Mapping Collage	Lauren Sullivan, Grace Cagle, Mica, Troy, Diana Di Leonardo, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

---

Stormwater Wetlands at City Park

Stormwater Wetlands in City Park is a site that embodies many of New Orleans’ urban water issues and goals. The area is subject to much subsidence and ongoing problems from unmanaged stormwater. The "Living with Water" strategy re-envisions water infrastructure as aesthetic, ecological, and geological improvements, and a way to reduce damages from flooding and induced subsidence, and increase property values and quality of life. In an attempt to create a pilot project for the Living with Water scenario, City Park and LSU AgCenter created a stormwater wetland here.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/20/14	Mapknitter Map	Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis	Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/20/14	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis	Jack Faust, Meghan Speakman and Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
5/30/15	Mapknitter Map	David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King	Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
5/30/15	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King	David Flores and Liz Barry

---

Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration

Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration site shows the marsh shorelines are an aesthetic and ecological improvement to the armored, rubbled, and/or eroded banklines there were historically in place. Community planting of this rubble shoreline was begun during the government shutdown in 2013, and the bullrush have begun to flourish. There is a great deal of community activity and interest in the site for recreation and educational uses.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/10/15	Pole Mapping Collage	Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/10/15	Near Infrared Pole Mapping Collage	Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

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Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant

Bayou Bienvenue/Central Wetlands Treated Biosolids Restoration is a site with a lot of interest! Bayou Bienvenue is an urban, intermediate Bayou and the Bayou Bienvenue wetland triangle (BBWT) is an adjacent former Cypress swamp destroyed by impoundment and saltwater intrusion. Post-Katrina, the site has been subjected to saltwater marsh restoration attempts of many kinds, including created wetlands for biosolids and wastewater treatment, and shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species, and proposals for additional mechanical fill for hardwood, swamp, and emergent marsh as well as and floating marsh restoration. These various restoration efforts have been done in coordination with Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, Common Ground Wetlands program, LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, National Wildlife Federation, visiting Universities, and many other national and community partners. Due to these improvements and attention, the Bayou is increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation, from fishing to canoeing and kayaking and hunting.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/11/14	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Gerald McCollam, Leslie Williams, Molly Gordon and Claire Loudis	Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/10/15	Mapknitter Map	Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis	Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

---

South Shore Restoration Site

South Shore Marsh Restoration site includes several dispersed community restoration plantings of Spartina alterniflora done in New Orleans East on the south shore of the oligohaline Lake Pontchartrain. These plantings have persisted through several named coastal storms in 2008 and 2012, and provide habitat for estuarine species along an otherwise neglected urban shoreline. These marshes, while small, have persisted beyond their project life, despite being in a high-energy shoreline line in relatively deep water. The site provides an example of how other armored shorelines in the New Orleans metro area can increase habitat value with relatively small, garden-scale, community-based efforts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
4/18/15	Pole Mapping Collage	Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

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XXXXX Collected | Type | Mappers | Cartographers :-----------------------|:--------------------------|:---------------------|:---------------------- 4/18/15 | Near Infrared Pole Mapping Collage | Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis | Liz Barry

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XXXXX

Louisiana Nature Center

The Louisiana Nature Center is an urban site of post-Katrina cypress forest restoration, which includes invasive tallow control and cypress planting efforts. The wetland site is under considerable drainage of the New Orleans East Polder, but still provides forest canopy for migrating birds. Many hope that this site will flourish as a restored cypress forest. There is a long history of naturalist interest in this site, and a long record of weekly bird counts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/11/14	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Scott Eustis, Tim McLean, Lauren Sullivan and Amy LeGaux	Scott Eustis and Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
6/9/15	Mapknitter Map	Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis	Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
6/9/15	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis	Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

---

Wetland Watchers Park

Wetland Watchers Park is an educational and recreational park reclaimed from the Lake Pontchartrain bottom. It is the site of a reforestation project between the Bonnet Carre Spillway and Bayou LaBranche, as well as historic and recent marsh restoration projects. This swamp and marsh site (formerly a freshwater swamp, with a remnant canopy) is subject to much shoreline erosion and ecological change, as well as freshwater inputs from Bayou LaBranche and the Bonnet Carre Spillway. The park facilities themselves are designed to be flooded, as they were during Hurricane Isaac in 2012. The park is regularly used by New Orleans area grade and high schools for wetland education.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
12/13/14	Mapknitter Map	Will Veatch, Gerald McCollam, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis	Alexis Smith, Lauren Alleman and Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/11/15	Mapknitter Map	Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo	Scott Eustis and Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/11/15	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo	Liz Barry

---

Welcome to the New Orleans Urban Waters Restoration Mapping Project page. This project was funded in part by the EPA Urban Waters Small Grant Program. This community mapping project aimed to maps eight urban restoration sites around New Orleans. Learn more about the sites and visit the maps made in this project below!

Mapping sites around New Orleans

• Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain
• Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway
• Stormwater Wetlands at City Park
• Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration
• Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant
• South Shore Restoration Site
• Louisiana Nature Center
• Wetland Watcher's Park

Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain

Bayou St John is an urban Scenic River and site of post-Katrina saltwater marsh restoration, including many locations of urban shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species in coordination with the Bayou St John Scenic river restoration plan, the LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, and many community partners. In part due to these improvements, the area is becoming an increasingly popular urban recreation destination. Detailed documentation can encourage continued restoration and maintenance of existing restoration efforts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/11/14	Mapknitter Map	Dan Beavers, Dan Henry and Brandi Caro	Joneya Thompson, Catherine Nguyen and Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
5/30/15	Mapknitter Map	David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King	Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

---

Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway

Bayou St John Scenic Urban Waterway is a site of urban shoreline re-vegetation. The site is an increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation of tremendously varied kinds, from dog walking to canoeing and kayaking to fishing, boat races and musical festivals. With high public interest and participation through this project, detailed documentation will encourage the continued restoration and maintenance of restoration efforts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
11/11/14	Pole Mapping Collage	Scott Eustis	Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
1/24/15	Pole Mapping Collage	Lauren Sullivan, Grace Cagle, Mica, Troy, Diana Di Leonardo, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

---

Stormwater Wetlands at City Park

Stormwater Wetlands in City Park is a site that embodies many of New Orleans’ urban water issues and goals. The area is subject to much subsidence and ongoing problems from unmanaged stormwater. The "Living with Water" strategy re-envisions water infrastructure as aesthetic, ecological, and geological improvements, and a way to reduce damages from flooding and induced subsidence, and increase property values and quality of life. In an attempt to create a pilot project for the Living with Water scenario, City Park and LSU AgCenter created a stormwater wetland here.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/20/14	Mapknitter Map	Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis	Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/20/14	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis	Jack Faust, Meghan Speakman and Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
5/30/15	Mapknitter Map	David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King	Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
5/30/15	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King	David Flores and Liz Barry

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Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration

Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration site shows the marsh shorelines are an aesthetic and ecological improvement to the armored, rubbled, and/or eroded banklines there were historically in place. Community planting of this rubble shoreline was begun during the government shutdown in 2013, and the bullrush have begun to flourish. There is a great deal of community activity and interest in the site for recreation and educational uses.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/10/15	Pole Mapping Collage	Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

---

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/10/15	Near Infrared Pole Mapping Collage	Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

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Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant

Bayou Bienvenue/Central Wetlands Treated Biosolids Restoration is a site with a lot of interest! Bayou Bienvenue is an urban, intermediate Bayou and the Bayou Bienvenue wetland triangle (BBWT) is an adjacent former Cypress swamp destroyed by impoundment and saltwater intrusion. Post-Katrina, the site has been subjected to saltwater marsh restoration attempts of many kinds, including created wetlands for biosolids and wastewater treatment, and shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species, and proposals for additional mechanical fill for hardwood, swamp, and emergent marsh as well as and floating marsh restoration. These various restoration efforts have been done in coordination with Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, Common Ground Wetlands program, LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, National Wildlife Federation, visiting Universities, and many other national and community partners. Due to these improvements and attention, the Bayou is increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation, from fishing to canoeing and kayaking and hunting.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/11/14	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Gerald McCollam, Leslie Williams, Molly Gordon and Claire Loudis	Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/10/15	Mapknitter Map	Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis	Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

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South Shore Restoration Site

South Shore Marsh Restoration site includes several dispersed community restoration plantings of Spartina alterniflora done in New Orleans East on the south shore of the oligohaline Lake Pontchartrain. These plantings have persisted through several named coastal storms in 2008 and 2012, and provide habitat for estuarine species along an otherwise neglected urban shoreline. These marshes, while small, have persisted beyond their project life, despite being in a high-energy shoreline line in relatively deep water. The site provides an example of how other armored shorelines in the New Orleans metro area can increase habitat value with relatively small, garden-scale, community-based efforts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
4/18/15	Pole Mapping Collage	Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

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XXXXX Collected | Type | Mappers | Cartographers :-----------------------|:--------------------------|:---------------------|:---------------------- 4/18/15 | Near Infrared Pole Mapping Collage | Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis | Liz Barry

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Louisiana Nature Center

The Louisiana Nature Center is an urban site of post-Katrina cypress forest restoration, which includes invasive tallow control and cypress planting efforts. The wetland site is under considerable drainage of the New Orleans East Polder, but still provides forest canopy for migrating birds. Many hope that this site will flourish as a restored cypress forest. There is a long history of naturalist interest in this site, and a long record of weekly bird counts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/11/14	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Scott Eustis, Tim McLean, Lauren Sullivan and Amy LeGaux	Scott Eustis and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
6/9/15	Mapknitter Map	Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis	Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
6/9/15	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis	Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

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Wetland Watchers Park

Wetland Watchers Park is an educational and recreational park reclaimed from the Lake Pontchartrain bottom. It is the site of a reforestation project between the Bonnet Carre Spillway and Bayou LaBranche, as well as historic and recent marsh restoration projects. This swamp and marsh site (formerly a freshwater swamp, with a remnant canopy) is subject to much shoreline erosion and ecological change, as well as freshwater inputs from Bayou LaBranche and the Bonnet Carre Spillway. The park facilities themselves are designed to be flooded, as they were during Hurricane Isaac in 2012. The park is regularly used by New Orleans area grade and high schools for wetland education.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
12/13/14	Mapknitter Map	Will Veatch, Gerald McCollam, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis	Alexis Smith, Lauren Alleman and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/11/15	Mapknitter Map	Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo	Scott Eustis and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/11/15	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo	Liz Barry

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Welcome to the New Orleans Urban Waters Restoration Mapping Project page. This project was funded in part by the EPA Urban Waters Small Grant Program. This community mapping project aimed to maps eight urban restoration sites around New Orleans. Learn more about the sites and visit the maps made in this project below!

Mapping sites around New Orleans

• Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain
• Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway
• Stormwater Wetlands at City Park
• Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration
• Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant
• South Shore Restoration Site
• Louisiana Nature Center
• Wetland Watcher's Park

Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain

Bayou St John is an urban Scenic River and site of post-Katrina saltwater marsh restoration, including many locations of urban shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species in coordination with the Bayou St John Scenic river restoration plan, the LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, and many community partners. In part due to these improvements, the area is becoming an increasingly popular urban recreation destination. Detailed documentation can encourage continued restoration and maintenance of existing restoration efforts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/11/14	Mapknitter Map	Dan Beavers, Dan Henry and Brandi Caro	Joneya Thompson, Catherine Nguyen and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
5/30/15	Mapknitter Map	David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King	Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

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Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway

Bayou St John Scenic Urban Waterway is a site of urban shoreline re-vegetation. The site is an increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation of tremendously varied kinds, from dog walking to canoeing and kayaking to fishing, boat races and musical festivals. With high public interest and participation through this project, detailed documentation will encourage the continued restoration and maintenance of restoration efforts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
11/11/14	Pole Mapping Collage	Scott Eustis	Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
1/24/15	Pole Mapping Collage	Lauren Sullivan, Grace Cagle, Mica, Troy, Diana Di Leonardo, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

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Stormwater Wetlands at City Park

Stormwater Wetlands in City Park is a site that embodies many of New Orleans’ urban water issues and goals. The area is subject to much subsidence and ongoing problems from unmanaged stormwater. The "Living with Water" strategy re-envisions water infrastructure as aesthetic, ecological, and geological improvements, and a way to reduce damages from flooding and induced subsidence, and increase property values and quality of life. In an attempt to create a pilot project for the Living with Water scenario, City Park and LSU AgCenter created a stormwater wetland here.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/20/14	Mapknitter Map	Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis	Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/20/14	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis	Jack Faust, Meghan Speakman and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
5/30/15	Mapknitter Map	David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King	Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
5/30/15	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King	David Flores and Liz Barry

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Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration

Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration site shows the marsh shorelines are an aesthetic and ecological improvement to the armored, rubbled, and/or eroded banklines there were historically in place. Community planting of this rubble shoreline was begun during the government shutdown in 2013, and the bullrush have begun to flourish. There is a great deal of community activity and interest in the site for recreation and educational uses.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/10/15	Pole Mapping Collage	Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/10/15	Near Infrared Pole Mapping Collage	Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

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Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant

Bayou Bienvenue/Central Wetlands Treated Biosolids Restoration is a site with a lot of interest! Bayou Bienvenue is an urban, intermediate Bayou and the Bayou Bienvenue wetland triangle (BBWT) is an adjacent former Cypress swamp destroyed by impoundment and saltwater intrusion. Post-Katrina, the site has been subjected to saltwater marsh restoration attempts of many kinds, including created wetlands for biosolids and wastewater treatment, and shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species, and proposals for additional mechanical fill for hardwood, swamp, and emergent marsh as well as and floating marsh restoration. These various restoration efforts have been done in coordination with Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, Common Ground Wetlands program, LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, National Wildlife Federation, visiting Universities, and many other national and community partners. Due to these improvements and attention, the Bayou is increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation, from fishing to canoeing and kayaking and hunting.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/11/14	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Gerald McCollam, Leslie Williams, Molly Gordon and Claire Loudis	Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/10/15	Mapknitter Map	Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis	Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

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South Shore Restoration Site

South Shore Marsh Restoration site includes several dispersed community restoration plantings of Spartina alterniflora done in New Orleans East on the south shore of the oligohaline Lake Pontchartrain. These plantings have persisted through several named coastal storms in 2008 and 2012, and provide habitat for estuarine species along an otherwise neglected urban shoreline. These marshes, while small, have persisted beyond their project life, despite being in a high-energy shoreline line in relatively deep water. The site provides an example of how other armored shorelines in the New Orleans metro area can increase habitat value with relatively small, garden-scale, community-based efforts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
4/18/15	Pole Mapping Collage	Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis	Liz Barry

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XXXXX Collected | Type | Mappers | Cartographers :-----------------------|:--------------------------|:---------------------|:---------------------- 4/18/15 | Near Infrared Pole Mapping Collage | Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis | Liz Barry

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Louisiana Nature Center

The Louisiana Nature Center is an urban site of post-Katrina cypress forest restoration, which includes invasive tallow control and cypress planting efforts. The wetland site is under considerable drainage of the New Orleans East Polder, but still provides forest canopy for migrating birds. Many hope that this site will flourish as a restored cypress forest. There is a long history of naturalist interest in this site, and a long record of weekly bird counts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/11/14	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Scott Eustis, Tim McLean, Lauren Sullivan and Amy LeGaux	Scott Eustis and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
6/9/15	Mapknitter Map	Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis	Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
6/9/15	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis	Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

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Wetland Watchers Park

Wetland Watchers Park is an educational and recreational park reclaimed from the Lake Pontchartrain bottom. It is the site of a reforestation project between the Bonnet Carre Spillway and Bayou LaBranche, as well as historic and recent marsh restoration projects. This swamp and marsh site (formerly a freshwater swamp, with a remnant canopy) is subject to much shoreline erosion and ecological change, as well as freshwater inputs from Bayou LaBranche and the Bonnet Carre Spillway. The park facilities themselves are designed to be flooded, as they were during Hurricane Isaac in 2012. The park is regularly used by New Orleans area grade and high schools for wetland education.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
12/13/14	Mapknitter Map	Will Veatch, Gerald McCollam, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis	Alexis Smith, Lauren Alleman and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/11/15	Mapknitter Map	Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo	Scott Eustis and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
7/11/15	Near Infrared Mapknitter Map	Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo	Liz Barry

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Welcome to the New Orleans Urban Waters Restoration Mapping Project page. This project was funded in part by the EPA Urban Waters Small Grant Program. This community mapping project aimed to maps eight urban restoration sites around New Orleans. Learn more about the sites and visit the maps made in this project below!

Mapping sites around New Orleans

• Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain
• Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway
• Stormwater Wetlands at City Park
• Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration
• Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant
• South Shore Restoration Site
• Louisiana Nature Center
• Wetland Watcher's Park

Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain

Bayou St John is an urban Scenic River and site of post-Katrina saltwater marsh restoration, including many locations of urban shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species in coordination with the Bayou St John Scenic river restoration plan, the LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, and many community partners. In part due to these improvements, the area is becoming an increasingly popular urban recreation destination. Detailed documentation can encourage continued restoration and maintenance of existing restoration efforts.

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/11/14	Mapknitter Map	Dan Beavers, Dan Henry and Brandi Caro	Joneya Thompson, Catherine Nguyen and Liz Barry

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Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
5/30/15	Mapknitter Map	David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King	Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

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Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway

Bayou St John Scenic Urban Waterway is a site of urban shoreline re-vegetation. The site is an increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation of tremendously varied kinds, from dog walking to canoeing and kayaking to fishing, boat races and musical festivals. With high public interest and participation through this project, detailed documentation will encourage the continued restoration and maintenance of restoration efforts.

Images Collected: 11/11/14
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Scott Eustis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Images Collected: 1/24/15
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Lauren Sullivan, Grace Cagle, Mica, Troy, Diana Di Leonardo, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Stormwater Wetlands at City Park

Stormwater Wetlands in City Park is a site that embodies many of New Orleans’ urban water issues and goals. The area is subject to much subsidence and ongoing problems from unmanaged stormwater. The "Living with Water" strategy re-envisions water infrastructure as aesthetic, ecological, and geological improvements, and a way to reduce damages from flooding and induced subsidence, and increase property values and quality of life. In an attempt to create a pilot project for the Living with Water scenario, City Park and LSU AgCenter created a stormwater wetland here.

Images Collected: 10/20/14
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 11/20/14
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Jack Faust, Meghan Speakman and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 5/30/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King
Cartographers: Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 5/30/15
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King
Cartographers: David Flores and Liz Barry

Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration

Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration site shows the marsh shorelines are an aesthetic and ecological improvement to the armored, rubbled, and/or eroded banklines there were historically in place. Community planting of this rubble shoreline was begun during the government shutdown in 2013, and the bullrush have begun to flourish. There is a great deal of community activity and interest in the site for recreation and educational uses.

Images Collected: 7/10/15
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Images Collected: 7/10/15
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant

Bayou Bienvenue/Central Wetlands Treated Biosolids Restoration is a site with a lot of interest! Bayou Bienvenue is an urban, intermediate Bayou and the Bayou Bienvenue wetland triangle (BBWT) is an adjacent former Cypress swamp destroyed by impoundment and saltwater intrusion. Post-Katrina, the site has been subjected to saltwater marsh restoration attempts of many kinds, including created wetlands for biosolids and wastewater treatment, and shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species, and proposals for additional mechanical fill for hardwood, swamp, and emergent marsh as well as and floating marsh restoration. These various restoration efforts have been done in coordination with Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, Common Ground Wetlands program, LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, National Wildlife Federation, visiting Universities, and many other national and community partners. Due to these improvements and attention, the Bayou is increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation, from fishing to canoeing and kayaking and hunting.

Images Collected: 10/11/14
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Gerald McCollam, Leslie Williams, Molly Gordon and Claire Loudis
Cartographers: Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 7/10/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

South Shore Restoration Site

South Shore Marsh Restoration site includes several dispersed community restoration plantings of Spartina alterniflora done in New Orleans East on the south shore of the oligohaline Lake Pontchartrain. These plantings have persisted through several named coastal storms in 2008 and 2012, and provide habitat for estuarine species along an otherwise neglected urban shoreline. These marshes, while small, have persisted beyond their project life, despite being in a high-energy shoreline line in relatively deep water. The site provides an example of how other armored shorelines in the New Orleans metro area can increase habitat value with relatively small, garden-scale, community-based efforts.

Images Collected: 4/18/15
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Images Collected: 4/18/15
Type: Near Infrared Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Louisiana Nature Center

The Louisiana Nature Center is an urban site of post-Katrina cypress forest restoration, which includes invasive tallow control and cypress planting efforts. The wetland site is under considerable drainage of the New Orleans East Polder, but still provides forest canopy for migrating birds. Many hope that this site will flourish as a restored cypress forest. There is a long history of naturalist interest in this site, and a long record of weekly bird counts.

Images Collected: 10/11/14
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Scott Eustis, Tim McLean, Lauren Sullivan and Amy LeGaux
Cartographers: Scott Eustis and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 6/9/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 6/9/15
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

Wetland Watchers Park

Wetland Watchers Park is an educational and recreational park reclaimed from the Lake Pontchartrain bottom. It is the site of a reforestation project between the Bonnet Carre Spillway and Bayou LaBranche, as well as historic and recent marsh restoration projects. This swamp and marsh site (formerly a freshwater swamp, with a remnant canopy) is subject to much shoreline erosion and ecological change, as well as freshwater inputs from Bayou LaBranche and the Bonnet Carre Spillway. The park facilities themselves are designed to be flooded, as they were during Hurricane Isaac in 2012. The park is regularly used by New Orleans area grade and high schools for wetland education.

Images Collected: 12/13/14
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Will Veatch, Gerald McCollam, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Alexis Smith, Lauren Alleman and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 7/11/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo
Cartographers: Scott Eustis

Images Collected: 7/11/15
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/11/14	Mapknitter Map	Dan Beavers, Dan Henry and Brandi Caro	Joneya Thompson, Catherine Nguyen and Liz Barry

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Welcome to the New Orleans Urban Waters Restoration Mapping Project page. This project was funded in part by the EPA Urban Waters Small Grant Program. This community mapping project aimed to maps eight urban restoration sites around New Orleans. Learn more about the sites and visit the maps made in this project below!

Mapping sites around New Orleans

• Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain
• Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway
• Stormwater Wetlands at City Park
• Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration
• Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant
• South Shore Restoration Site
• Louisiana Nature Center
• Wetland Watcher's Park

Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain

Bayou St John is an urban Scenic River and site of post-Katrina saltwater marsh restoration, including many locations of urban shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species in coordination with the Bayou St John Scenic river restoration plan, the LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, and many community partners. In part due to these improvements, the area is becoming an increasingly popular urban recreation destination. Detailed documentation can encourage continued restoration and maintenance of existing restoration efforts.

Images Collected: 10/11/14
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Dan Beavers, Dan Henry and Brandi Caro
Cartographers: Joneya Thompson, Catherine Nguyen and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 5/30/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King
Cartographers: Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway

Bayou St John Scenic Urban Waterway is a site of urban shoreline re-vegetation. The site is an increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation of tremendously varied kinds, from dog walking to canoeing and kayaking to fishing, boat races and musical festivals. With high public interest and participation through this project, detailed documentation will encourage the continued restoration and maintenance of restoration efforts.

Images Collected: 11/11/14
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Scott Eustis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Images Collected: 1/24/15
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Lauren Sullivan, Grace Cagle, Mica, Troy, Diana Di Leonardo, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Stormwater Wetlands at City Park

Stormwater Wetlands in City Park is a site that embodies many of New Orleans’ urban water issues and goals. The area is subject to much subsidence and ongoing problems from unmanaged stormwater. The "Living with Water" strategy re-envisions water infrastructure as aesthetic, ecological, and geological improvements, and a way to reduce damages from flooding and induced subsidence, and increase property values and quality of life. In an attempt to create a pilot project for the Living with Water scenario, City Park and LSU AgCenter created a stormwater wetland here.

Images Collected: 10/20/14
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 11/20/14
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Jack Faust, Meghan Speakman and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 5/30/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King
Cartographers: Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 5/30/15
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King
Cartographers: David Flores and Liz Barry

Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration

Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration site shows the marsh shorelines are an aesthetic and ecological improvement to the armored, rubbled, and/or eroded banklines there were historically in place. Community planting of this rubble shoreline was begun during the government shutdown in 2013, and the bullrush have begun to flourish. There is a great deal of community activity and interest in the site for recreation and educational uses.

Images Collected: 7/10/15
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Images Collected: 7/10/15
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant

Bayou Bienvenue/Central Wetlands Treated Biosolids Restoration is a site with a lot of interest! Bayou Bienvenue is an urban, intermediate Bayou and the Bayou Bienvenue wetland triangle (BBWT) is an adjacent former Cypress swamp destroyed by impoundment and saltwater intrusion. Post-Katrina, the site has been subjected to saltwater marsh restoration attempts of many kinds, including created wetlands for biosolids and wastewater treatment, and shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species, and proposals for additional mechanical fill for hardwood, swamp, and emergent marsh as well as and floating marsh restoration. These various restoration efforts have been done in coordination with Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, Common Ground Wetlands program, LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, National Wildlife Federation, visiting Universities, and many other national and community partners. Due to these improvements and attention, the Bayou is increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation, from fishing to canoeing and kayaking and hunting.

Images Collected: 10/11/14
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Gerald McCollam, Leslie Williams, Molly Gordon and Claire Loudis
Cartographers: Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 7/10/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

South Shore Restoration Site

South Shore Marsh Restoration site includes several dispersed community restoration plantings of Spartina alterniflora done in New Orleans East on the south shore of the oligohaline Lake Pontchartrain. These plantings have persisted through several named coastal storms in 2008 and 2012, and provide habitat for estuarine species along an otherwise neglected urban shoreline. These marshes, while small, have persisted beyond their project life, despite being in a high-energy shoreline line in relatively deep water. The site provides an example of how other armored shorelines in the New Orleans metro area can increase habitat value with relatively small, garden-scale, community-based efforts.

Images Collected: 4/18/15
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Images Collected: 4/18/15
Type: Near Infrared Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Louisiana Nature Center

The Louisiana Nature Center is an urban site of post-Katrina cypress forest restoration, which includes invasive tallow control and cypress planting efforts. The wetland site is under considerable drainage of the New Orleans East Polder, but still provides forest canopy for migrating birds. Many hope that this site will flourish as a restored cypress forest. There is a long history of naturalist interest in this site, and a long record of weekly bird counts.

Images Collected: 10/11/14
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Scott Eustis, Tim McLean, Lauren Sullivan and Amy LeGaux
Cartographers: Scott Eustis and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 6/9/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 6/9/15
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

Wetland Watchers Park

Wetland Watchers Park is an educational and recreational park reclaimed from the Lake Pontchartrain bottom. It is the site of a reforestation project between the Bonnet Carre Spillway and Bayou LaBranche, as well as historic and recent marsh restoration projects. This swamp and marsh site (formerly a freshwater swamp, with a remnant canopy) is subject to much shoreline erosion and ecological change, as well as freshwater inputs from Bayou LaBranche and the Bonnet Carre Spillway. The park facilities themselves are designed to be flooded, as they were during Hurricane Isaac in 2012. The park is regularly used by New Orleans area grade and high schools for wetland education.

Images Collected: 12/13/14
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Will Veatch, Gerald McCollam, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Alexis Smith, Lauren Alleman and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 7/11/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo
Cartographers: Scott Eustis

Images Collected: 7/11/15
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Collected	Type	Mappers	Cartographers
10/11/14	Mapknitter Map	Dan Beavers, Dan Henry and Brandi Caro	Joneya Thompson, Catherine Nguyen and Liz Barry

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Welcome to the New Orleans Urban Waters Restoration Mapping Project page. This project was funded in part by the EPA Urban Waters Small Grant Program. This community mapping project aimed to maps eight urban restoration sites around New Orleans. Learn more about the sites and visit the maps made in this project below!

Mapping sites around New Orleans

• Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain
• Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway
• Stormwater Wetlands at City Park
• Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration
• Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant
• South Shore Restoration Site
• Louisiana Nature Center
• Wetland Watcher's Park

Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain

Bayou St John is an urban Scenic River and site of post-Katrina saltwater marsh restoration, including many locations of urban shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species in coordination with the Bayou St John Scenic river restoration plan, the LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, and many community partners. In part due to these improvements, the area is becoming an increasingly popular urban recreation destination. Detailed documentation can encourage continued restoration and maintenance of existing restoration efforts.

Images Collected: 10/11/14
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Dan Beavers, Dan Henry and Brandi Caro
Cartographers: Joneya Thompson, Catherine Nguyen and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 5/30/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King
Cartographers: Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway

Bayou St John Scenic Urban Waterway is a site of urban shoreline re-vegetation. The site is an increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation of tremendously varied kinds, from dog walking to canoeing and kayaking to fishing, boat races and musical festivals. With high public interest and participation through this project, detailed documentation will encourage the continued restoration and maintenance of restoration efforts.

Images Collected: 11/11/14
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Scott Eustis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Images Collected: 1/24/15
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Lauren Sullivan, Grace Cagle, Mica, Troy, Diana Di Leonardo, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Stormwater Wetlands at City Park

Stormwater Wetlands in City Park is a site that embodies many of New Orleans’ urban water issues and goals. The area is subject to much subsidence and ongoing problems from unmanaged stormwater. The "Living with Water" strategy re-envisions water infrastructure as aesthetic, ecological, and geological improvements, and a way to reduce damages from flooding and induced subsidence, and increase property values and quality of life. In an attempt to create a pilot project for the Living with Water scenario, City Park and LSU AgCenter created a stormwater wetland here.

Images Collected: 10/20/14
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 11/20/14
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Jack Faust, Meghan Speakman and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 5/30/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King
Cartographers: Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 5/30/15
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King
Cartographers: David Flores and Liz Barry

Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration

Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration site shows the marsh shorelines are an aesthetic and ecological improvement to the armored, rubbled, and/or eroded banklines there were historically in place. Community planting of this rubble shoreline was begun during the government shutdown in 2013, and the bullrush have begun to flourish. There is a great deal of community activity and interest in the site for recreation and educational uses.

Images Collected: 7/10/15
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Images Collected: 7/10/15
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant

Bayou Bienvenue/Central Wetlands Treated Biosolids Restoration is a site with a lot of interest! Bayou Bienvenue is an urban, intermediate Bayou and the Bayou Bienvenue wetland triangle (BBWT) is an adjacent former Cypress swamp destroyed by impoundment and saltwater intrusion. Post-Katrina, the site has been subjected to saltwater marsh restoration attempts of many kinds, including created wetlands for biosolids and wastewater treatment, and shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species, and proposals for additional mechanical fill for hardwood, swamp, and emergent marsh as well as and floating marsh restoration. These various restoration efforts have been done in coordination with Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, Common Ground Wetlands program, LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, National Wildlife Federation, visiting Universities, and many other national and community partners. Due to these improvements and attention, the Bayou is increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation, from fishing to canoeing and kayaking and hunting.

Images Collected: 10/11/14
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Gerald McCollam, Leslie Williams, Molly Gordon and Claire Loudis
Cartographers: Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 7/10/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

South Shore Restoration Site

South Shore Marsh Restoration site includes several dispersed community restoration plantings of Spartina alterniflora done in New Orleans East on the south shore of the oligohaline Lake Pontchartrain. These plantings have persisted through several named coastal storms in 2008 and 2012, and provide habitat for estuarine species along an otherwise neglected urban shoreline. These marshes, while small, have persisted beyond their project life, despite being in a high-energy shoreline line in relatively deep water. The site provides an example of how other armored shorelines in the New Orleans metro area can increase habitat value with relatively small, garden-scale, community-based efforts.

Images Collected: 4/18/15
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Images Collected: 4/18/15
Type: Near Infrared Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Louisiana Nature Center

The Louisiana Nature Center is an urban site of post-Katrina cypress forest restoration, which includes invasive tallow control and cypress planting efforts. The wetland site is under considerable drainage of the New Orleans East Polder, but still provides forest canopy for migrating birds. Many hope that this site will flourish as a restored cypress forest. There is a long history of naturalist interest in this site, and a long record of weekly bird counts.

Images Collected: 10/11/14
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Scott Eustis, Tim McLean, Lauren Sullivan and Amy LeGaux
Cartographers: Scott Eustis and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 6/9/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 6/9/15
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

Wetland Watchers Park

Wetland Watchers Park is an educational and recreational park reclaimed from the Lake Pontchartrain bottom. It is the site of a reforestation project between the Bonnet Carre Spillway and Bayou LaBranche, as well as historic and recent marsh restoration projects. This swamp and marsh site (formerly a freshwater swamp, with a remnant canopy) is subject to much shoreline erosion and ecological change, as well as freshwater inputs from Bayou LaBranche and the Bonnet Carre Spillway. The park facilities themselves are designed to be flooded, as they were during Hurricane Isaac in 2012. The park is regularly used by New Orleans area grade and high schools for wetland education.

Images Collected: 12/13/14
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Will Veatch, Gerald McCollam, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Alexis Smith, Lauren Alleman and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 7/11/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo
Cartographers: Scott Eustis

Images Collected: 7/11/15
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Welcome to the New Orleans Urban Waters Restoration Mapping Project page. This project was funded in part by the EPA Urban Waters Small Grant Program. This community mapping project aimed to maps eight urban restoration sites around New Orleans. Learn more about the sites and visit the maps made in this project below!

Mapping sites around New Orleans

• Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain
• Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway
• Stormwater Wetlands at City Park
• Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration
• Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant
• South Shore Restoration Site
• Louisiana Nature Center
• Wetland Watcher's Park

Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain

Bayou St John is an urban Scenic River and site of post-Katrina saltwater marsh restoration, including many locations of urban shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species in coordination with the Bayou St John Scenic river restoration plan, the LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, and many community partners. In part due to these improvements, the area is becoming an increasingly popular urban recreation destination. Detailed documentation can encourage continued restoration and maintenance of existing restoration efforts.

Images Collected: 10/11/14
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Dan Beavers, Dan Henry and Brandi Caro
Cartographers: Joneya Thompson, Catherine Nguyen and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 5/30/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King
Cartographers: Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway

Bayou St John Scenic Urban Waterway is a site of urban shoreline re-vegetation. The site is an increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation of tremendously varied kinds, from dog walking to canoeing and kayaking to fishing, boat races and musical festivals. With high public interest and participation through this project, detailed documentation will encourage the continued restoration and maintenance of restoration efforts.

Images Collected: 11/11/14
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Scott Eustis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Images Collected: 1/24/15
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Lauren Sullivan, Grace Cagle, Mica, Troy, Diana Di Leonardo, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Stormwater Wetlands at City Park

Stormwater Wetlands in City Park is a site that embodies many of New Orleans’ urban water issues and goals. The area is subject to much subsidence and ongoing problems from unmanaged stormwater. The "Living with Water" strategy re-envisions water infrastructure as aesthetic, ecological, and geological improvements, and a way to reduce damages from flooding and induced subsidence, and increase property values and quality of life. In an attempt to create a pilot project for the Living with Water scenario, City Park and LSU AgCenter created a stormwater wetland here.

Images Collected: 10/20/14
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 11/20/14
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Jack Faust, Meghan Speakman and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 5/30/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King
Cartographers: Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 5/30/15
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King
Cartographers: David Flores and Liz Barry

Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration

Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration site shows the marsh shorelines are an aesthetic and ecological improvement to the armored, rubbled, and/or eroded banklines there were historically in place. Community planting of this rubble shoreline was begun during the government shutdown in 2013, and the bullrush have begun to flourish. There is a great deal of community activity and interest in the site for recreation and educational uses.

Images Collected: 7/10/15
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Images Collected: 7/10/15
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant

Bayou Bienvenue/Central Wetlands Treated Biosolids Restoration is a site with a lot of interest! Bayou Bienvenue is an urban, intermediate Bayou and the Bayou Bienvenue wetland triangle (BBWT) is an adjacent former Cypress swamp destroyed by impoundment and saltwater intrusion. Post-Katrina, the site has been subjected to saltwater marsh restoration attempts of many kinds, including created wetlands for biosolids and wastewater treatment, and shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species, and proposals for additional mechanical fill for hardwood, swamp, and emergent marsh as well as and floating marsh restoration. These various restoration efforts have been done in coordination with Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, Common Ground Wetlands program, LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, National Wildlife Federation, visiting Universities, and many other national and community partners. Due to these improvements and attention, the Bayou is increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation, from fishing to canoeing and kayaking and hunting.

Images Collected: 10/11/14
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Gerald McCollam, Leslie Williams, Molly Gordon and Claire Loudis
Cartographers: Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 7/10/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

South Shore Restoration Site

South Shore Marsh Restoration site includes several dispersed community restoration plantings of Spartina alterniflora done in New Orleans East on the south shore of the oligohaline Lake Pontchartrain. These plantings have persisted through several named coastal storms in 2008 and 2012, and provide habitat for estuarine species along an otherwise neglected urban shoreline. These marshes, while small, have persisted beyond their project life, despite being in a high-energy shoreline line in relatively deep water. The site provides an example of how other armored shorelines in the New Orleans metro area can increase habitat value with relatively small, garden-scale, community-based efforts.

Images Collected: 4/18/15
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Images Collected: 4/18/15
Type: Near Infrared Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Louisiana Nature Center

The Louisiana Nature Center is an urban site of post-Katrina cypress forest restoration, which includes invasive tallow control and cypress planting efforts. The wetland site is under considerable drainage of the New Orleans East Polder, but still provides forest canopy for migrating birds. Many hope that this site will flourish as a restored cypress forest. There is a long history of naturalist interest in this site, and a long record of weekly bird counts.

Images Collected: 10/11/14
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Scott Eustis, Tim McLean, Lauren Sullivan and Amy LeGaux
Cartographers: Scott Eustis and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 6/9/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 6/9/15
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

Wetland Watchers Park

Wetland Watchers Park is an educational and recreational park reclaimed from the Lake Pontchartrain bottom. It is the site of a reforestation project between the Bonnet Carre Spillway and Bayou LaBranche, as well as historic and recent marsh restoration projects. This swamp and marsh site (formerly a freshwater swamp, with a remnant canopy) is subject to much shoreline erosion and ecological change, as well as freshwater inputs from Bayou LaBranche and the Bonnet Carre Spillway. The park facilities themselves are designed to be flooded, as they were during Hurricane Isaac in 2012. The park is regularly used by New Orleans area grade and high schools for wetland education.

Images Collected: 12/13/14
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Will Veatch, Gerald McCollam, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Alexis Smith, Lauren Alleman and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 7/11/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo
Cartographers: Scott Eustis

Images Collected: 7/11/15
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Welcome to the New Orleans Urban Waters Restoration Mapping Project page. This project was funded in part by the EPA Urban Waters Small Grant Program. This community mapping project aimed to maps eight urban restoration sites around New Orleans. Learn more about the sites and visit the maps made in this project below!

Mapping sites around New Orleans

• Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain
• Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway
• Stormwater Wetlands at City Park
• Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration
• Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant
• South Shore Restoration Site
• Louisiana Nature Center
• Wetland Watcher's Park

Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain

Bayou St John is an urban Scenic River and site of post-Katrina saltwater marsh restoration, including many locations of urban shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species in coordination with the Bayou St John Scenic river restoration plan, the LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, and many community partners. In part due to these improvements, the area is becoming an increasingly popular urban recreation destination. Detailed documentation can encourage continued restoration and maintenance of existing restoration efforts.

Images Collected: 10/11/14
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Dan Beavers, Dan Henry and Brandi Caro
Cartographers: Joneya Thompson, Catherine Nguyen and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 5/30/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King
Cartographers: Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway

Bayou St John Scenic Urban Waterway is a site of urban shoreline re-vegetation. The site is an increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation of tremendously varied kinds, from dog walking to canoeing and kayaking to fishing, boat races and musical festivals. With high public interest and participation through this project, detailed documentation will encourage the continued restoration and maintenance of restoration efforts.

Images Collected: 11/11/14
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Scott Eustis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Images Collected: 1/24/15
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Lauren Sullivan, Grace Cagle, Mica, Troy, Diana Di Leonardo, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Stormwater Wetlands at City Park

Stormwater Wetlands in City Park is a site that embodies many of New Orleans’ urban water issues and goals. The area is subject to much subsidence and ongoing problems from unmanaged stormwater. The "Living with Water" strategy re-envisions water infrastructure as aesthetic, ecological, and geological improvements, and a way to reduce damages from flooding and induced subsidence, and increase property values and quality of life. In an attempt to create a pilot project for the Living with Water scenario, City Park and LSU AgCenter created a stormwater wetland here.

Images Collected: 10/20/14
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 11/20/14
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Jack Faust, Meghan Speakman and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 5/30/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King
Cartographers: Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 5/30/15
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King
Cartographers: David Flores and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 7/10/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

South Shore Restoration Site

South Shore Marsh Restoration site includes several dispersed community restoration plantings of Spartina alterniflora done in New Orleans East on the south shore of the oligohaline Lake Pontchartrain. These plantings have persisted through several named coastal storms in 2008 and 2012, and provide habitat for estuarine species along an otherwise neglected urban shoreline. These marshes, while small, have persisted beyond their project life, despite being in a high-energy shoreline line in relatively deep water. The site provides an example of how other armored shorelines in the New Orleans metro area can increase habitat value with relatively small, garden-scale, community-based efforts.

Images Collected: 4/18/15
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Images Collected: 4/18/15
Type: Near Infrared Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Louisiana Nature Center

The Louisiana Nature Center is an urban site of post-Katrina cypress forest restoration, which includes invasive tallow control and cypress planting efforts. The wetland site is under considerable drainage of the New Orleans East Polder, but still provides forest canopy for migrating birds. Many hope that this site will flourish as a restored cypress forest. There is a long history of naturalist interest in this site, and a long record of weekly bird counts.

Images Collected: 10/11/14
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Scott Eustis, Tim McLean, Lauren Sullivan and Amy LeGaux
Cartographers: Scott Eustis and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 6/9/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 6/9/15
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

Wetland Watchers Park

Wetland Watchers Park is an educational and recreational park reclaimed from the Lake Pontchartrain bottom. It is the site of a reforestation project between the Bonnet Carre Spillway and Bayou LaBranche, as well as historic and recent marsh restoration projects. This swamp and marsh site (formerly a freshwater swamp, with a remnant canopy) is subject to much shoreline erosion and ecological change, as well as freshwater inputs from Bayou LaBranche and the Bonnet Carre Spillway. The park facilities themselves are designed to be flooded, as they were during Hurricane Isaac in 2012. The park is regularly used by New Orleans area grade and high schools for wetland education.

Images Collected: 12/13/14
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Will Veatch, Gerald McCollam, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Alexis Smith, Lauren Alleman and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 7/11/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo
Cartographers: Scott Eustis

Images Collected: 7/11/15
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Welcome to the New Orleans Urban Waters Restoration Mapping Project page. This project was funded in part by the EPA Urban Waters Small Grant Program. This community mapping project aimed to maps eight urban restoration sites around New Orleans. Learn more about the sites and visit the maps made in this project below!

Eight mapping sites around New Orleans

• Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain
• Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway
• Stormwater Wetlands at City Park
• Bayou Bienvenue Shoreline Restoration
• Bayou Bienvenue Waste Water Treatment Plant
• South Shore Restoration Site
• Louisiana Nature Center
• Wetland Watcher's Park

Bayou St. John at Lake Pontchartrain

Bayou St John is an urban Scenic River and site of post-Katrina saltwater marsh restoration, including many locations of urban shoreline re-vegetation with Scirpus and Spartina species in coordination with the Bayou St John Scenic river restoration plan, the LSU AgCenter, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, and many community partners. In part due to these improvements, the area is becoming an increasingly popular urban recreation destination. Detailed documentation can encourage continued restoration and maintenance of existing restoration efforts.

Images Collected: 10/11/14
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Dan Beavers, Dan Henry and Brandi Caro
Cartographers: Joneya Thompson, Catherine Nguyen and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 5/30/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King
Cartographers: Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

Bayou St. John Scenic Urban Waterway

Bayou St John Scenic Urban Waterway is a site of urban shoreline re-vegetation. The site is an increasingly favored location for outdoor recreation of tremendously varied kinds, from dog walking to canoeing and kayaking to fishing, boat races and musical festivals. With high public interest and participation through this project, detailed documentation will encourage the continued restoration and maintenance of restoration efforts.

Images Collected: 11/11/14
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Scott Eustis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Images Collected: 1/24/15
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Lauren Sullivan, Grace Cagle, Mica, Troy, Diana Di Leonardo, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Stormwater Wetlands at City Park

Stormwater Wetlands in City Park is a site that embodies many of New Orleans’ urban water issues and goals. The area is subject to much subsidence and ongoing problems from unmanaged stormwater. The "Living with Water" strategy re-envisions water infrastructure as aesthetic, ecological, and geological improvements, and a way to reduce damages from flooding and induced subsidence, and increase property values and quality of life. In an attempt to create a pilot project for the Living with Water scenario, City Park and LSU AgCenter created a stormwater wetland here.

Images Collected: 10/20/14
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 11/20/14
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Travis Haas, William Byram,Elias James Carrier, Lynda Cortez, Rory Cummings-Dise, Nicholas Dayton, Landry Duchane, Connor Egan,Paul Gale, Morgan-Me'Lyn Grant, Jenna Guidry, Caitlyn Harris, Victoria Hecker, Madison Kerth, James King, Carli Kirtland, Mignon Mauduit, Caleb McKay, Kiersten Moore, Jamie Morris, Connie New, Lindsey Rhodes, Marley Saffrhan, Celine Seiber, Immanuel Simon, Clara Souvignier, Amberly Stuart, Nina Tauriac, Halle Wood, Zenobia Zeno, and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Jack Faust, Meghan Speakman and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 5/30/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King
Cartographers: Diana Di Leonardo and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 5/30/15
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: David Flores, Diana Di Leonardo, Molly Gordon, Stevie Lewis and Harley King
Cartographers: David Flores and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 7/10/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Victoria Gillam, Holly Fraychineaud, Iman Neal, Emily Zielke, Lavan Woodberry, Zury Wilson, Larry Shell, Alicia Neal, Andrew Wilson and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Stevie Lewis and Liz Barry

South Shore Restoration Site

South Shore Marsh Restoration site includes several dispersed community restoration plantings of Spartina alterniflora done in New Orleans East on the south shore of the oligohaline Lake Pontchartrain. These plantings have persisted through several named coastal storms in 2008 and 2012, and provide habitat for estuarine species along an otherwise neglected urban shoreline. These marshes, while small, have persisted beyond their project life, despite being in a high-energy shoreline line in relatively deep water. The site provides an example of how other armored shorelines in the New Orleans metro area can increase habitat value with relatively small, garden-scale, community-based efforts.

Images Collected: 4/18/15
Type: Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Images Collected: 4/18/15
Type: Near Infrared Pole Mapping Collage
Mappers: Dan Beavers, Diana Di Leonardo and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Liz Barry

Louisiana Nature Center

The Louisiana Nature Center is an urban site of post-Katrina cypress forest restoration, which includes invasive tallow control and cypress planting efforts. The wetland site is under considerable drainage of the New Orleans East Polder, but still provides forest canopy for migrating birds. Many hope that this site will flourish as a restored cypress forest. There is a long history of naturalist interest in this site, and a long record of weekly bird counts.

Images Collected: 10/11/14
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Scott Eustis, Tim McLean, Lauren Sullivan and Amy LeGaux
Cartographers: Scott Eustis and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 6/9/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 6/9/15
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Molly Gordon and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Molly Gordon and Liz Barry

Wetland Watchers Park

Wetland Watchers Park is an educational and recreational park reclaimed from the Lake Pontchartrain bottom. It is the site of a reforestation project between the Bonnet Carre Spillway and Bayou LaBranche, as well as historic and recent marsh restoration projects. This swamp and marsh site (formerly a freshwater swamp, with a remnant canopy) is subject to much shoreline erosion and ecological change, as well as freshwater inputs from Bayou LaBranche and the Bonnet Carre Spillway. The park facilities themselves are designed to be flooded, as they were during Hurricane Isaac in 2012. The park is regularly used by New Orleans area grade and high schools for wetland education.

Images Collected: 12/13/14
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Will Veatch, Gerald McCollam, Scott Eustis and Stevie Lewis
Cartographers: Alexis Smith, Lauren Alleman and Liz Barry

Images Collected: 7/11/15
Type: Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo
Cartographers: Scott Eustis

Images Collected: 7/11/15
Type: Near Infrared Mapknitter Map
Mappers: Grace Cagle, Scott Eustis, Miriam Belblidia, Stevie Lewis and Diana Di Leonardo
Cartographers: Liz Barry