Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 name Lafourche is from the French for "the fork", [7] and alludes to the bayou's large outflow of Mississippi River water. The first settlements of Acadians in southern Louisiana were near Bayou Lafourche and Bayou des Écores, which led to a close association of the bayou with Cajun culture.
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 ...
The Lafourche Parish Water District 1 serves all of Lafourche outside of Thibodaux. The spill is only affecting clients south of the Gheens Bridge, Gautreaux said.
In 2012 the CPRA allocated $20 million to the Bayou Lafourche Fresh Water District, from the Coastal Impact Assistance Program, to implement State Project BA-0161 or "Phase 2", that is scheduled for completion in December 2016. Phase 2 includes 8.3 miles (13.4 km) of dredging between Belle Rose and Napoleonville, ending just north of LA 998 ...
Atchafalaya Basin. The wetlands of Louisiana are water-saturated coastal and swamp regions of southern Louisiana, often called "Bayou".. The Louisiana coastal zone stretches from the border of Texas to the Mississippi line [1] and comprises two wetland-dominated ecosystems, the Deltaic Plain of the Mississippi River (unit 1, 2, and 3) and the closely linked Chenier Plain (unit 4). [2]
At the local level governments have to spend thousands combating the plant's growth as well: in Terrebonne this amounts to about $150,000-250,000 a year, and in Lafourche its managed by the Bayou ...
Lac des Allemands is a 12,000-acre (4,900 ha) lake located about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of New Orleans, Louisiana, in Lafourche, St. Charles, and St. John the Baptist Parishes. [1] The lake name is French for "Lake of the Germans", referring to the early settlers who inhabited that part of Louisiana . [ 2 ]