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March 18, 2019
Protecting our People, Our Property and Our Way of Life
New Video Series:
"Around the District with Dwayne"
Rip Rap may not be a superhero, but it does protect us. Learn more about armoring and why it's important for levee protection in this video with NLLD Executive Director Dwayne Bourgeois, the first in a new series, "Around the District with Dwayne."
NLLD Armoring Projects Defend Levees Against Wave Action
The North Lafourche Levee District is now working on two armoring projects to strengthen levees and defend them against dangerous tidal surge and wave action.

Using loose stone called rip rap, the NLLD is building a protective shield along the Des Allemands Levee and the Lockport to Larose D3 Levee. The armoring will protect the integrity of the levees if they become inundated with high flood waters and defend them against the long-term erosion of waves.

Rip rap is being added to existing levee armoring along Lockport to Larose D3, pictured above, and the entire open water area along the Des Allemands Levee will be armored with rip rap, pictured below.
PROJECT SPOTLIGHT:

East Theriot Canal Dredging
Boaters may notice activity around the East Theriot Canal boat launch in Raceland as the NLLD conducts maintenance dredging in the canal from the boat launch off Hwy. 308 to just before the 40 Arpent Canal.

The project is expected to take several months and the NLLD asks boaters to consider using the nearby Sanchez or Larousse boat launches while the dredging is being conducted.

For more on the East Theriot Canal dredging project and the NLLD's participation in the Upper Barataria Risk Reduction Project, read Julia Arenstam's March 5, 2019, article from DailyComet.com.
IN THE NEWS
CPRA Blog Features Governor's Levee Visit

In a website blog post "The View from Above," the LA CPRA reports on Governor John Bel Edwards' February trip to Lafourche and Terrebonne to view progress on Morganza to the Gulf and other local levee projects.

"Lifting off from the Houma Terrebonne Airport, the helicopter flew a roughly clockwise path, taking the group over the North Lafourche Levee Alignment and CPRA-involved projects such as the 40 Arpent Canal Levee, the Hollywood Canal Closure Structure, Levee Improvements for the Gheens Community, the  Valentine to Larose levee , and the Kraemer Bayou Boeuf Levee Lift."

" What I saw today was remarkable. While there is much more to do, it is incredible to see what the residents of Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes have been able to accomplish on their own, and I applaud them for not leaving their fate in the hands of others...." - Governor Edwards

NLLD on HTV

NLLD Executive Director
Dwayne Bourgeois and Morganza to the Gulf Project Manager
Mitch Marmande were guests
on HTV's "Going Public"
show on Tuesday, February 26.

Watch it HERE .

UPCOMING NLLD MEETINGS
TOMORROW
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Location: NLLD Office
3862 Highway 1 in Raceland

5:00 PM
Finance and Priority Committee

5:15 PM (or immediately following F&P)
Regular Meeting of the Board of Commissioners



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2018 NLLD Board of Commissioners
Cory Kief, President
Timothy Allen, Vice President
Kenney Matherne, Sec/Treas
Louis Andolsek, Jr.
Rodney Foret
Darcy Kiffe
Adley Peltier
Elmo "Jay" Pitre, III
Robert Pitre
Joni Tuck

Dwayne Bourgeois,
Executive Director

Madonna Viguerie, Administrative Assistant
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.
North Lafourche Levee District
3862 Highway 1, Raceland, LA 70394
(985) 537-2244
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