More than $200 million is going to be contributed toward restoring marshes in Louisiana following the 2010 BP oil spill that saw 100 million gallons of oil spill into the region.

The settlement for BP for that incident was more than $20 billion after the government sued over violations to the Clean Water Act, among other claims.

The money is going to be funding a variety of different projects, two for Louisiana which are the Spanish Pass project and the Lake Borgne project.

These projects are designed to help restore the thousands of acres of marshes in the New Orleans region of Louisiana.

They expect the work on those projects that will restore marshes in the LA region to be started sometime next year.

After studying the extent of the damage for 6 years...

A study on the impact of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon spill had estimated that the event had caused significant financial damage, at least $17 billion in damage to natural resources.

As well, there were also lives lost over the incident, 11 workers died and several others injured.

Scientists have suggested that the spill caused the deaths of between 600,000 to 800,000 seabirds.

After the spill, researchers say that they witnessed at least a 51-percent decrease in dolphin population throughout the Louisiana Barataria Bay region.

Over 100k sea turtles died and more than 8 billion oysters were lost.

For the United States it has become known as one of the worst environmental disasters in history. So the $20 billion doesn't seem like much when you consider the damage that was inflicted upon individuals and the environment.

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