The St. Charles Parish Council has approved an intergovernmental agreement with the State of Louisiana and the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority to build the Upper Barataria Risk Reduction Cousins Pump Station T-Wall. The item, titled "Intergovernmental Agreement with CPRA for Cousins Pump Station T-Wall," passed at the council meeting.

A T-wall is a flood protection wall. The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, known as CPRA, is the state agency responsible for coastal protection and restoration in Louisiana. The agreement is funded by a $16,700,000 award from CPRA. That money comes from the state, not from parish taxes or local funds.

The vote record does not list a construction start date or a completion date for the T-wall project. It also does not say what share of the total project cost the $16,700,000 award covers.

The information in this story comes from the official vote record for this meeting, as published by the parish.