An island that is home to hundreds of brown pelican nests as well at terns, gulls and roseated spoonbills is impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in Barataria Bay, just inside the the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, May 22, 2010.
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
La. gov: state will build sand berms to fight oil
An island that is home to hundreds of brown pelican nests as well at terns, gulls and roseated spoonbills is impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in Barataria Bay, just inside the the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, May 22, 2010.
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
ON BARATARIA BAY, La.—With oil pushing at least 12 miles into Louisiana's marshes and two major pelican rookeries now coated in crude, Gov. Bobby Jindal says the state is working on chain of sand berms that would skirt the state's coastline.
Jindal visited one of the affected nesting grounds Sunday. Jindal and officials from several coastal parishes say the berms would close the door on the oil still pouring from a deepwater gusher about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast.
The berms would be made with sandbags. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers also is considering a broader plan that would use dredging to build sand berms across more of the barrier islands.
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