bayous

• “One of the chief reasons for removing old, oil and gas wells from south Louisiana's lakes and bayous is that those areas are vulnerable to storms and hurricanes, and any collapse in structures could threaten the public, Lopez said.”

  The Huffington Post: Susan Buchanan: Louisiana Removes Defunct Oil Wells But Hazards Remain

• “And if you are anywhere below that level, you are going to get water in Houston proper, because of those drainage ditches that they call bayous and we will watch those go up all night tonight, 100-mile-per-hour, maybe 95 - mile-per-hour winds in downtown Houston.”

  CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2008

• “These are termed bayous, and are found everywhere along the river, below the mouth of the Ohio.”

  Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

• “It does - I lived there for 12 years (and yes, fishing on the bayous is a wonderful, peaceful experience on early summer mornings before it gets too hot) - but it clearly has some of the problems the rest of the South has, made painfully clear by Hurricane Katrina's grisly aftermath.”

  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed

• “Many of them, to obtain shelter from the shells and canister shot of the Federal fleet, had taken refuge in the "bayous" which lie not far from the river in many places; and they looked like half drowned rats as they came on board the Louisiana.”

  The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner

• “Mississippi is cut up by innumerable streams and "bayous" or marshy creeks, winding and intersecting amid a dense growth of cedars.”

  Abraham Lincoln

• “And they have tried to remove it--from the open Gulf all the way to the coasts and bayous.”

  The Huffington Post: Riki Ott: BP's Promise versus What BP Really Means: Some Insights on Making People Hole (Whole) and Just Us (Justice) in the Gulf

• “A third of Louisiana's residents get their water from surface water--lakes, rivers and bayous--while two-thirds drink water that comes from wells and is pumped out of aquifers.”

  The Huffington Post: Susan Buchanan: New Orleans Tap Water Beats Odds, Meets All Regulatory Standards

• “The magical spring season should soon bring warm waters teeming with life back to the region’s marshy bayous and sandy shores.”

  The Huffington Post: Rocky Kistner: Dead Baby Dolphins and Oil Wash in on the Gulf Coast

• “Louisiana loses a football field of wetlands every 45 minutes -- and nearly 60 percent of that is attributed to the oil and gas activity that has ravaged our beloved bayous for years.”

  The Huffington Post: Ian Somerhalder: The Oil Isn't Gone, but the People Are Still Here

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