By:  Meredith Burns, HoumaToday.com October 13, 2015   In Bayou Lafourche just north of Plattenville, two dredges are working around the clock to help clear sediment from the waterway that provides drinking water to more than 300,000 people in Lafourche, Terrebonne, Assumption and Ascension parishes. The dredge work is part of a massive project called […]

By:  Meredith Burns, HoumaToday.com August 27, 2015   Lafourche Parish officials hope to see construction on a new saltwater control structure along Bayou Lafourche completed next summer. The roughly $3.4 million construction contract with Cayo LLC out of Fort Worth, Texas was awarded at Tuesday’s Parish Council meeting. The structure, which will be located behind […]

June 24, 2015 Opinions – HoumaToday.com Hundreds of thousands of people throughout our region get their drinking water from Bayou Lafourche. The water is purified before it makes its way through miles of pipes and into the faucet at your home. But the better the source of that water is, the better off we all […]

June 22, 2105 By:  Jacob Batte, HoumaToday.com   Dredging began today on a $16 million project to increase Mississippi River water flow into Bayou Lafourche. That influx of fresh water will enhance the water quality to the bayou, which serves as the main source of drinking water for more than 300,000 people in Lafourche, Terrebonne […]

May 12, 2015 Second Phase of Dredging Project To Begin The BLFWD has awarded a contract for 8.3 miles of dredging in Bayou Lafourche between Belle Rose and Napoleonville. Work could begin as early as this month on the $15 million project. This is the second phase of a large-scale project to increase Mississippi River […]