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## Archived Information

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## Lousiana Coastal Area Science and Technology Program

## LCA Science Board Provides Diversion Guidance Document

Four members of the Louisiana Coastal Area Science Board, Drs. Robert G. Dean, John T. Wells, Joseph Fernando and Peter Goodwin, prepared a document designed to provide a framework for thinking about river diversions.  The document is entitled *"River Diversions: Principles, Processes, Challenges and Opportunities:  A Guidance Document."*   This *Guidance Document*provides a framework and rational basis for the preliminary design of river diverisons and the selection of key design parameters that will impact their performance.  

The *Guidance Document* also includes general recommendation for selection and utilization of diversion sites: 1) select sites that, based on all available evidence, are in areas of low subsidence; 2) select sites that are likely to have very high trapping efficiency; 3) select sites that are less than 2 m in depth; 4) select sites that have very low bottom gradients; 5) implement a well-thought-out monitoring plan to be part of each diversion project; 6) apply adaptive management as new information and understanding becomes available from monitoring; 7) recognize that diversions will have a life cycle and are not permanent features; and, 8) recognize and model insofar as possible the effects on navigation that will likely result from large diversions.

The full document can be downloaded from the following link:  Dean and Wells Final Guidance Document.pdf

## Ad Hoc Peer Review Committees

The Technical Support Team (TST), within the Ad Hoc Peer Review Committees, serves a critical role in engaging and representing the larger science and engineering community that has been actively involved in advancing the knowledge, understanding, and tools necessary to develop an ecosystem restoration program in coastal Louisiana. Technical Review Team members have been selected based on their expertise and their knowledge of the array of experts in their field that may be able to assist with LCA program and project needs. Specific roles of the TST include: 
                              - Identify and recommend personnel that can provide the highest quality of science and engineering expertise to support activities of the PETs 
                              - Identify and recommend details associated with scope of services that define the science and engineering needs of the S&T Plan 
                              - Review and recommend processes and mechanisms to engage the highest quality of science and engineering expertise 

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