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On August 4, 2011, Blue Bayou and Dixie Landin' was fined $25,295 by the U.S. Department of Labor for numerous labor violations. The park was allowing minors to work more than eight hours a day. 49 minors in the 14- to 15-year-old category were found to be subject to child labor provision violations.
Atchafalaya Basin. The wetlands of Louisiana are water-saturated coastal and swamp regions of southern Louisiana, often called "Bayou".. The Louisiana coastal zone stretches from the border of Texas to the Mississippi line [1] and comprises two wetland-dominated ecosystems, the Deltaic Plain of the Mississippi River (unit 1, 2, and 3) and the closely linked Chenier Plain (unit 4). [2]
Bayou Manchac is an 18-mile-long (29 km) [1] bayou in southeast Louisiana, USA. First called the Iberville River ("rivière d'Iberville") by its French discoverers, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] the bayou was once a very important waterway linking the Mississippi River (west end) to the Amite River (east end).
Baton Rouge Zoo - BREC's Baton Rouge Zoo is home to over 1,800 animals from around the world. The Baton Rouge Zoo was the first zoo in Louisiana to achieve the distinguished honor of being accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Blue Bayou Waterpark - Blue Bayou has over 20 water rides. Favorites are the "Mad Moccasin," "Conja" and ...
Bayou Plaquemine; Rouge Bayou. Bayou Jack; Bayou des Glaises; Tributaries. Bayou Pierre [2] Coles Creek [3] Yazoo River [4] Red River; Red River. Red River. Black River.
Louisiana Highway 75 Spur (LA 75 Spur) runs 0.18 miles (0.29 km) in a southwest to northeast direction, consisting largely of a swing bridge across the Lower Grand River (a link in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway) in the small Iberville Parish community of Bayou Sorrel. The route connects LA 75 with Bayou Sorrel Road, a local road that travels ...
In June 1997 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Eugenie Boisfontaine disappeared. Her body was found three months later in Bayou Manchac in nearby Iberville Parish, 15 miles south of Baton Rouge. Her head had blunt force trauma. Was it a singular murder or from a string of serial murders in the area?
The Vermilion River (or the Bayou Vermilion, French: Rivière Vermilion) is a 70.0-mile-long (112.7 km) [2] bayou in southern Louisiana in the United States.It is formed on the common boundary of Lafayette and St. Martin parishes by a confluence of small bayous flowing from St. Landry Parish, and flows generally southward through Lafayette and Vermilion parishes, past the cities of Lafayette ...