Plaquemines

Laura Olson, a research scientist with George Washington University's Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management, spent the past five years studying the communities in Plaquemines Parish.

Rocky Kistner: Six Months Later, an Oil Disaster Spreads Across the Gulf Rocky Kistner 2010

Laura Olson, a research scientist with George Washington University's Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management, spent the past five years studying the communities in Plaquemines Parish.

Rocky Kistner: Six Months Later, an Oil Disaster Spreads Across the Gulf Rocky Kistner 2010

BATON ROUGE Efforts to keep some of the millions of gallons of oil spewing from an offshore well from hitting the coast of Louisiana were unsuccessful as waves carrying raw crude moved overnight into delicate estuaries at the state's southernmost point, Pass a'Loutre in Plaquemines Parish.

Oil spill reaches Louisiana shore 2010

Laura Olson, a research scientist with George Washington University's Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management, spent the past five years studying the communities in Plaquemines Parish.

Rocky Kistner: Six Months Later, an Oil Disaster Spreads Across the Gulf Rocky Kistner 2010

Laura Olson, a research scientist with George Washington University's Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management, spent the past five years studying the communities in Plaquemines Parish.

Rocky Kistner: Six Months Later, an Oil Disaster Spreads Across the Gulf Rocky Kistner 2010

There were some initial reports, particularly regarding oil spills in Plaquemines and St. Bernard ... and I think a story or two about the dangers of a not all that thoroughly capped 9th Ward landfill that subsequently became a residential neighborhood and presumably flooded.

Your Right Hand Thief 2008

The towns in Plaquemines Parish, built on the thin strip of land between the Mississippi River levee on the east and the so-called hurricane protection levee on the west, have been reduced to rafts of trash and animal corpses floating in a putrid black sea.

A Ravaged Coast 2007

The towns in Plaquemines Parish, built on the thin strip of land between the Mississippi River levee on the east and the so-called hurricane protection levee on the west, have been reduced to rafts of trash and animal corpses floating in a putrid black sea.

A Ravaged Coast 2007

Last Aug. 29, Katrina, a Category 5 hurricane packing 160-mile-an-hour winds, weakened significantly as it made landfall in Plaquemines Parish.

New Orleans’ Recovery Slow and Sloppy | Impact Lab 2006

Last Aug. 29, Katrina, a Category 5 hurricane packing 160-mile-an-hour winds, weakened significantly as it made landfall in Plaquemines Parish.

USATODAY.com - New Orleans' recovery slow and slippery process 2006