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Update, 4:29 p.m.: The Lafourche Parish Facebook Page has been designated as the official source of info for the Raceland oil spill. A hotline was established for wildlife affected by the spill.
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 ...
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.
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.
In 1938, Leeville became the oil producing capital of Lafourche Parish with 297 producing wells. [ 2 ] According to studies by the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program , around 70% of the town's surrounding wetlands have vanished since 1932, which means by 2030 the town could disappear from maps.
Louisiana Highway 182 (LA 182) is a state highway located in central and southeastern Louisiana.It runs 173.41 miles (279.08 km) [2] in a northwest to southeast direction from LA 29 in Whiteville to U.S. Highway 90 (US 90) north of Raceland.
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.
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]