The Bayou Segnette Watershed!

Watershed 101 Top 10 Things you Can Do to

A watershed is the area of land that drains into a Protect Bayou Segnette:
specific water body. 1.! Dispose of food waste and cooking
oils in your trash and not down your
sink.
What you REALLY need to know 2.! Dispose of pet waste properly.
about watersheds: 3.! Properly maintain vehicles.
Your actions can have an impact on the water
4.! Properly maintain septic systems.
quality (how clean the water is) in your
watershed. 5.! Limit the use of pesticides and
fertilizers.
6.! Keep your storm drains clear and
Locally our rain water drains directly into clean of debris.
canals that are then pumped directly into
7.! Properly dispose of household
Bayou Segnette. Storm water receives no
chemicals.
cleaning or treatment along the way.
8.! Carefully choose where you wash
Therefore, whatever gets pulled into the storm
drains with the rain water gets flushed into your car.
Bayou Segnette. 9.! Properly dispose of all wastes--do not
dump illegally.
Bayou Segnette State Park is in the Bayou 10.! Join the Bayou Segnette Watershed
Segnette Watershed, one of twenty-seven Alliance.
mini-watersheds that make up the Barataria For more information contact:
Basin.
Jennifer Roberts
Watershed Coordinator
The Bayou Segnette Watershed is impaired
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of dissolved oxygen and high levels of
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nitrogen, phosphorous, and sulfates in Bayou (504) 828-1866 ext 104
Segnette mean that although the fish you see jencarterroberts@gmail.com
and catch here are likely healthy, without
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restorative action the number of fish and
wildlife we’ll have here here in the future may
dwindle.

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