Project Portal

Do you have ideas for a specific restoration project in your area? You can click the button to begin the process of giving us the details.Your restoration ideas will be considered for projects across all funding sources which include RESTORE, Natural Resource Damage Assessment, (NRDA) and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF).Your project ideas will be entered into our database. Suggested projects will be retained as part of a database and will be evaluated for consideration as a restoration project to help restore Mississippi. Any selected projects will be subject to public review and comment.

Review All Submitted Projects

If you would like to review all projects that have been submitted to our project portal please Click Here for a map which displays the project ideas as well as the details of the project.

If you have submitted a project and would like to make a change to that project Click Here. Please remember that you must have your confirmation number and email address in order to edit your project. If you have any questions please send an email to restore.portal@mdeq.ms.gov or call 228-396-0486 for further assistance.

Submit Projects – Guidelines

Please Note: Submittal of a project idea does not guarantee that it will be selected for funding and/or implementation.

Please note that your project suggestion and any associated attachments may be posted online. Please be advised that your project suggestion – including your name and contact information, if included – may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us to withhold this information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. Projects submissions will be screened in advance of being posted online. All projects and attachments will be reviewed based on the guidelines listed below and posted (or not) following that review. Project suggestions that contain unacceptable content will not be edited; those projects will simply not be posted. Also, supporting documents, links, etc., are welcome as long as they are pertinent to the restoration project suggestion. However, the appearance of external links, advertisements, political opinions, or other comments do not constitute endorsement by the State of Mississippi.

Please note that content that meets the following criteria will NOT be posted: Contains vulgar language or material, personal attacks of any kind, threats, obscenity, or offensive terms that target specific ethnic or racial groups; Promotes services or products (non-commercial links that are relevant to the comment are acceptable); Are far off-topic (i.e., not within the scope of RESTORE); or Make unsupported accusations.