Bayou Gauche News

While other people headed for family gatherings or last-minute shopping Christmas Eve, Steve Thibodeaux of Bayou Blue stood in a waterlogged field, the eyes of more than 100 hungry cows fixed on him.

DES ALLEMANDS, La. - Louisiana Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain says hay is being trucked to the Bayou Gauche area because flooded pastures are still a problem for St.

For days, heavy flooding has dogged parts of St. Charles Parish. "I've been here 39 years, and I have never seen this water up like this, never," said Kenneth Thompson, a Bayou Gauche homeowner.

St. Charles Parish is under a flash flood watch this evening in advance of inclement weather that could bring two to four inches of rain to parts of the parish between the hours of 6 p.m. and midnight.

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Officials say a levee topped and dozens of homes flooded in St. Charles Parish. "A total of 35 residential homes have reported flooding to the EOC in Luling, Paradis and Boutte," spokeswoman Renee Allemand said.

St. Charles Parish residents living along Old Spanish Trail should reduce the use of toilets showers, washing and washing machines due to a break in a major sewer line.

St. Charles Parish Councilman Paul Hogan will ask the Parish Council on Monday to call for an investigation into how the new building expanded from a 26,000-square-foot building to the 40,000-square-foot building that will open early next year.

Through the hot summer, Cajuns take to the bayous in their air boats, pirogues and flat-bottomed mud craft in search of patches of lotus flowers floating in the shallow swamps and marshes of coastal Louisiana.

A 16-year-old Harahan boy who was visiting relatives in Bayou Gauche is accused of trying to take a part of the community home with him.

A A A' The 3-foot-long alligator on a bicyclist's shoulders was a real attention-getter. St.

With more than three dozen car burglaries reported so far in July, St. Charles Parish Sheriff Greg Champagne is urging residents to keep their car doors locked.

St. Charles Parish is using global positioning system equipment to collect data on local levee heights for use in storm surge modeling by Louisiana State University AgCenter and the National Hurricane Center.