HOUMA, La. (AP) - Officials say about 1,100 volunteers pulled roughly 20 tons of garbage from Bayou Lafourche during its annual cleanup last month.
The cleanup, held by the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program and the Bayou Lafourche Freshwater District, aims to clean up the area’s primary source of fresh water while educating the public on the detrimental effects of littering.
Bayou Lafourche Freshwater District Director Ben Marlbrough tells The Courier (https://bit.ly/1aqINbW) this year volunteer crews scoured the 50-mile span of bayou between Napoleonville and the Intracoastal Waterway in Larose.
In conjunction with the 2016 Bayou Lafourche Cleanup, Marlborough said he will work with Jonathan Foret, the executive director of the Wetlands Discovery Center in Houma, to kick start a Bayou Terrebonne cleanup project.
No dates have been released on a cleanup of Bayou Terrebonne.
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Information from: The Courier, https://www.houmatoday.com
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