Protecting Our People, Our Property
and Our Way of Life
June 21,  2016
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Upcoming NLLD Meetings
 
TODAY
Tuesday, 
June 21, 2016
 

NLLD Office
3862 Highway 1  Raceland

5:00 pm
Finance & Priority Committee Meeting
 
5:15 pm 
Regular Meeting of the  
Board of Commissioners
AGENDA


   
2016 NLLD
Board of Commissioners 


Cory Kief,
President
Timothy Allen,
Vice President

Kenney Matherne,
Secretary/Treasurer

Louis Andolsek, Jr. 

Rodney Foret

Darcy Kiffe

Adley Peltier

Elmo Pitre, III

Robert Pitre

Shawn Preston, Sr. 

Joni Tuck

 

 

Dwayne Bourgeois,
Executive Director

Madonna Viguerie,
Administrative Assistant

Thank you for your leadership and service!
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About the NLLD  
The North Lafourche Conservation, Levee, and Drainage District (known as NLLD) was formed in 1992 to provide drainage and flood protection services for the northern portion of Lafourche Parish, including the entire parish north of the Intracoastal Canal. 

The District includes over 250 miles of levees and drainage canals, and over 40 pump stations.

The NLLD office is located at 3862 Highway 1
Raceland, LA  70394

Phone:  985-537-2244
Email:    [email protected]
North Lafourche Prepares for Hurricane Season

The North Lafourche Levee District (NLLD) has invested over $2 million in levee and drainage projects over the past year to provide greater protection to North Lafourche communities as the 2016 Hurricane Season begins.

As NLLD Executive Director Dwayne Bourgeois told the Daily Comet in a June 8 article,  the agency has made levee repairs on the Lockport to Larose Levee System, including emergency repairs to a section of levee near Hamilton Street in Larose.  The District also began the 80 Arpent Canal maintenance and dredging project in 2015 to improve drainage in Thibodaux and neighborhoods north of LA 308.

Critical levee and drainage work like this will increase over the next year as the NLLD begins to collect a new quarter-cent sales tax approved by voters in 2015.  The tax is expected to generate an additional $2.2 million per year that will allow the NLLD to sell bonds for construction of larger projects.

"We're transitioning to getting more projects ready. Now with the sales tax, we have the ability to go to the bond market and do some of these projects faster," Bourgeois said.

Combined, the Terrebonne Levee District, and South and North Lafourche Levee Districts have spent more than $60 million since last hurricane season to build and fortify levee systems, providing the highest level of protection to date for Terrebonne and Lafourche communities with more on the way.



  
The NLLD repaired the Lockport to Larose levee near Hamilton Street in Larose.
 
 
 
HTV's "Going Public" Features NLLD 
 
 NLLD Executive Director Dwayne  Bourgeois and Board of  Commissioners Vice President Tim  Allen were the guests of HTV 10's  "Going Public" talk show on May 24.

Bourgeois and Allen discussed the history and mission of the NLLD, as well as current and planned projects designed to improve levee protection and drainage for North Lafourche residents and businesses.

Recordings of the show can be viewed here:

The next NLLD appearance on "Going Public" will be Tuesday, August 23, 2016.



 
  

 
NLLD works daily to protect our people, our property and our way of life in Lafourche Parish!
 
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