Office of Restoration
MDEQ’s Office of Restoration leads the state’s restoration efforts resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Executive Director Gary Rikard serves as Mississippi’s Trustee on the Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustee Council and as the Governor’s designee to the RESTORE Council.
The Office of Restoration takes a comprehensive approach to restoration, integrating projects and leveraging funding sources to implement restoration projects that will restore and enhance the Gulf Coast’s natural resources.
The office implements and manages projects from three main funding sources—the Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA), the RESTORE Act, and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s (NFWF) Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund.
Announcements
- Public Meeting – Bayou Casotte Industrial Buffer Project (February 20)
- Public Notice for Hancock County Marsh Living Shoreline IFB
- Governor Tate Reeves Announces $727,000 Grant for Long Beach
- Project Update Meeting for Habitat Restoration and Conservation in Turkey Creek
- IFB – Oyster Restoration & Management Phase I: Cultch Deployment Project
- IFB – Round Island Intertidal Circulation Enhancements Near Pascagoula, MS Project
- Mississippi State Expenditure Plan Available for Public Review and Comment
- Mississippi Multiyear Implementation Plan Amendment Available for Public Review and Comment
- Gov. Bryant Announces Restoration Projects
- IFB for MDEQ Water Quality Improvement Laboratory
- RFQ for Phase 5 Hancock County Marsh Living Shoreline Project
- RFQ for Modeling Related to the Eastern Mississippi Sound
- Mississippi Trustees Finalize Supplemental Plan for Grand Bay
- Save The Date for the 2019 Mississippi Restoration Summit
- Mississippi Trustees Release Draft Supplemental Plan for Grand Bay
- Mississippi Direct Component MIP Amendment #3 – Treasury Accepted June 2019
- MDEQ Invitation for Bids
- RFQ for Bayou Casotte Industrial Buffer Project
- RESTORE Council Planning Framework Draft Public Meeting – Long Beach (May 22)
- RFQ for Restoration Engineering Services
- MDEQ Announces Restoration Projects; 10 Projects Total $37.8 Million
- Mississippi Restoration Summit New Project Announcement 2018
- Notification of Initiation of Restoration Planning in Mississippi
- Mississippi Trustee Implementation Group Welcomes Public Submission of Project Ideas
- Notice of Project Change for the Phase IV Early Restoration Project: Restoring Living Shorelines and Reefs in Mississippi Estuaries
- Notice of Cancellation of Three Components of Phase IV Early Restoration Project: Restoring Living Shorelines and Reefs in Mississippi Estuaries
Habitat Restoration and Conservation in Turkey Creek Project
This project is funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund and seeks to conserve important habitat and enhance water quality in the Turkey Creek watershed through habitat and stream conservation and restoration.
