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Bayou Lafourche (/ l ə ˈ f uː ʃ / lə-FOOSH [1]), originally called Chetimachas River [2] or La Fourche des Chetimaches [3] (the fork of the Chitimacha), is a 106-mile-long (171 km) [4] bayou in southeastern Louisiana, United States, that flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
Coming upriver on the Mississippi, Donaldsonville is the point of the first expanse of land beyond the narrow natural levee. The city sits approximately 25 feet above sea level. Donaldsonville is located where Bayou Lafourche, a distributary of the Mississippi River, formerly branched off until the entrance was dammed in 1905. [20]
According to Bayou Lafourche Freshwater District Director Dustin Rabalais, barring a hurricane suddenly pushing it up river or some other unforeseen disaster, Bayou Lafourche is safe from the wedge.
The sheen could be seen from the 4000 block of LA 308, down to Central Lafourche High School. Bayou Lafourche Freshwater District Director Dustin Rabalais said the spill was caught early enough ...
Larose is located in south-central Lafourche Parish at (29.567328, -90.376074 It is bordered to the southeast by the community of Cut Off. Bayou Lafourche and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway intersect in the center of Larose.
Cleaning crews return with bags of absorbents as they hurry to remove 820 barrels of crude oil from Bayou Lafourche, July 28. The oil escaped a Crescent Midland facility, July 27, and the cause is ...
Lockport is a town on Bayou Lafourche in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 2,490 in 2020. The population was 2,490 in 2020. It is part of the Houma – Bayou Cane – Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area .
The body of a man who vanished after a car crash was found in a Louisiana bayou, state troopers said. Gilbert Bunch Jr., 64, was found dead in Bayou Lafourche on Friday, March 8, more than a week ...