After three months living in a hotel while a sinkhole near his home grows and grows, Carl Dugas has realized he won’t be moving back. When he left Aug. 3, he was willing return, though his wife was dubious about …
Louisiana officials say a growing, 5.5-acre sinkhole in northern Assumption Parish swamps gobbled up another strip of land this week. John Boudreaux, director of the parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, tells The Advocate trees fell in with …
Researchers are trying to determine the cause of small tremors recorded in the past two weeks coming from the northwest corner of a salt dome in northern Assumption Parish. The Advocate reports that the general area of the 1- by-3-mile …
The emergency preparedness director for Assumption Parish, La., says wells are being dug to vent and investigate natural gas trapped beneath a community near a 4-acre sinkhole. An unknown amount of gas is trapped below Bayou Corne. The water-bearing sands …