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Civic issues
Topics getting the most attention in St. Charles Parish public meetings, ranked by how frequently they come up.
Love Our Waterways cleanup results
The parish is backing Louisiana's first Love Our Waterways Month with a three-hour cleanup at the Bonnet Carré Spillway and Wetland Watcher Park on September 26. Volunteers get rakes, bags, t-shirts, and can sign up by emailing the coastal zone staff.
ADM barge fleet dredging on the Mississippi
The Army Corps wants consistency approval for 2026 maintenance dredging of three deep-draft river crossings to keep 50-foot channel depths for Port of South Louisiana shipping access.
Davis Pond diversion operations and Corps accountability
Committee members say the annual Davis Pond operating plan isn't working — salinity levels are killing swamps and wiping out aquatic vegetation, bass fisheries, and duck habitat across the Barataria estuary. They want more input on the operating agreement and floated pushing flows toward 5–15 parts per thousand salinity, with a possible new diversion or siphon upstream.