The TECHE Project is one of 32 organizations, agencies or municipalities to share in a $200,000 grant from Keep Louisiana Beautiful (KLB) as a part of the 2015-2016 Healthy Communities Grant Program.
Industrial waste water injection into an environment like the Atchafalaya Basin is a worrying prospect to many people and organizations that are concerned with the preservation of the Basin. For residents of Belle River who live along La. Hwy. 997, though, 35 to 50 tanker trucks per day are the most immediate threat, and it’s not clear that St.
PHOTO: Paul Davidson with Louisiana black bear cubs
PHOTO: A 69-acre tract (left) is mislabeled as being on Bayou Latanier when advertised for bid by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources in April 2014. The same area (right) is correctly labeled Bayou Postillion in an offering for a 66-acre tract.
PHOTO: Brown Bayou in 2011. A decade earlier, this was an open steam used by commercial fishermen, sport fishermen, hunters and others to access navigable waters of the Atchafalaya Basin. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit required this obstruction to be removed, but it wasn’t.