Bayou Lafourche Cleanup 2024
March 16th, 2024
Time:
8:00 AM
Location:
Lafourche Parish
Contact Name:
Emily Knobloch
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Each year we remove (literally) tons of trash from all 106 miles of Bayou Lafourche with the help of participants like you. Beyond its beauty and protecting the flora and fauna of our estuary, the importance of maintaining the health of Bayou Lafourche is critical to South Louisiana. Most of us utilize or benefit from the bayou every single day. It provides drinking water to over 300,000 citizens across Lafourche, Terrebonne, Assumption, and Ascension Parishes, and sends freshwater and sediment to our fragile coastal marshes in Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes. It’s also a great economic source for South Louisiana as the only potable water source for Port Fourchon and the offshore energy industry companies based there. Join us at sites from Donaldsonville to Leeville! Participants will be given the option to clean up on the bayouside, roadside, or in the water on a boat. Please note that participants who choose to clean up in the water will be responsible for their own boat. Volunteers will be given all supplies needed for the day and a free t-shirt!