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Friend sent me this today so I thought I would share for those planning trips.
NEWS RELEASE
Plaquemines Parish Update
Tuesday September 16, 2008
2:00pm
Highway 23 is still under water from south of the Alliance Refinery to West Pointe a la Hache. However large trucks are being allowed through to service the oil industry and supply other businesses in the south end.
Water continues to recede and pumps are operating to clear Highway 23 as quickly as possible. The water is receding into the marshes through various cuts in the levee made to expedite the flow and through two new breeches discovered after the water began receding. Highway 23 could be opened to traffic tonight or sometime tomorrow. It depends upon how quickly the water flows out. Meantime, the convoys on the Mississippi River Levee around the flooded Highway are continuing. Crews are working to fill the breeches at this time. One is nearly 200 feet long and 40 feet deep and is located near West Pointe a la Hache. The other smaller breech is about 40 feet in width and is located just south of the original breech in Pointe Celeste. Parish President Billy Nungesser has authorized the use of slabs broken up and discarded from Hurricane Katrina to be used to fill the levee breeches.
According to President Billy Nungesser-top priority is getting that Highway open. “Every day our residents don’t have access to their homes and their livelihoods…we lose. Because many are just leaving the parish and not coming back.”
NEWS RELEASE
Plaquemines Parish Update
Tuesday September 16, 2008
2:00pm
Highway 23 is still under water from south of the Alliance Refinery to West Pointe a la Hache. However large trucks are being allowed through to service the oil industry and supply other businesses in the south end.
Water continues to recede and pumps are operating to clear Highway 23 as quickly as possible. The water is receding into the marshes through various cuts in the levee made to expedite the flow and through two new breeches discovered after the water began receding. Highway 23 could be opened to traffic tonight or sometime tomorrow. It depends upon how quickly the water flows out. Meantime, the convoys on the Mississippi River Levee around the flooded Highway are continuing. Crews are working to fill the breeches at this time. One is nearly 200 feet long and 40 feet deep and is located near West Pointe a la Hache. The other smaller breech is about 40 feet in width and is located just south of the original breech in Pointe Celeste. Parish President Billy Nungesser has authorized the use of slabs broken up and discarded from Hurricane Katrina to be used to fill the levee breeches.
According to President Billy Nungesser-top priority is getting that Highway open. “Every day our residents don’t have access to their homes and their livelihoods…we lose. Because many are just leaving the parish and not coming back.”
