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In 2007, a seven-mile (11-km) section of the project from Leeville to Port Fourchon, including a higher bridge across Bayou Lafourche, began construction and was completed in December 2011. The next phase in the LA-1 Project looked to extend the elevated highway from within the flood gates of Golden Meadow to Port Fourchon. The final design was ...
Pointe-aux-Chenes Wildlife Management Area, also referred to as the Pointe-aux-Chenes WMA (French: Pointe Au Chien), is a 33,488 acres (13,552 ha) protected area located in Terrebonne and Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, that is owned and managed by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF).
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.
1961: Delta Farms flooded when the levees failed. The cattle were moved up Peanut Street and across the Bayou Lafourche Bridge to land on the west side of the bayou owned by one of the cattlemen. The land was re-drained, although only a few families returned. 1971: Levee broke, flooding all the land.
Thibodaux (/ ˈ t ɪ b ə d oʊ / TIB-ə-doh) is a city in, and the parish seat of, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States, [3] along the banks of Bayou Lafourche in the northwestern part of the parish. The population was 15,948 at the 2020 census. [4]
The U.S. Coast Guard closed the bayou to mariners from LA 182 to the Lockport Bridge, and the FAA has implemented a No-Fly zone from LA 182 to LA 654. The Unified Command is using drones and ...
As of Thursday morning, the Louisiana Power Outages Map reports that more than 25,000 residents in Terrebonne parish are without power. Lafourche Parish begins damage assessments. Sept. 12 / 8:59 a.m.
The section of present LA 339 within Lafayette Parish made up all of pre-1955 State Route 680 with a small section of State Route 236 connecting it to Route 148 at the parish line. [87] LA 339 was created in the 1955 Louisiana Highway renumbering , [ 8 ] and its route has remained the same apart from the smoothing of small sections in Lafayette.