Bayou Bienvenue is a 12.1-mile-long (19.5 km) [1] bayou and "ghost swamp" [2] in southeastern Louisiana.It runs along the political border between Orleans Parish and St. Bernard Parish to the east of New Orleans.The Bayou Bienvenue Wetlands Triangle viewing platform in the Lower Ninth Ward provides expansive views of the bayou and also …

Sep 25, 2024 · The Bayou Bienvenue Flood Gate is located at 29°59'53.78"N 89°54'56.21"W. If you are launching from local marinas then you will need to pass through this flood gate in order to reach popular fishing hot spots such as the Great Wall of Chalmette.

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Feb 1, 2010 · • Powerlines in Bayou Bienvenue. Cuccia says to either troll or anchor and fish near the powerline towers. “This is a good spot to try tightlining plastics or fishing live bait or plastic ...

The Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle is a remnant of a once great Mississippi River Delta swamp. As recently as the 1960s, a freshwater cypress swamp extended from New Orleans eastward to Lake Borgne. But more than a century of levee and canal construction converted this swamp into an open-water brackish marsh, with only cypress “ghosts ...

2 days ago · But Bayou Bienvenue is at the heart of the organization. Once a thriving cypress swamp, the ecosystem was devastated by the construction of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MR-GO) in the 1950s, which allowed salt water from the Gulf to poison the swamp forest. It’s never received state restoration funding, though the state Coastal Master ...

The Bayou Bienvenue Wetlands Triangle is a remnant of a once great Mississippi River Delta swamp. As recently as the 1960s, this freshwater swamp extended from New Orleans eastward to Lake Borgne. But more than a century of levee and canal construction converted a thriving ecosystem into an open-water brackish marsh, with only cypress “ghosts ...

Jun 2, 2014 · The Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle of today is what is called a “ghost swamp”. Until the 1960s, it was a full of cypress trees, part of the central wetlands system that ran from the Lower ...

Bayou Bienvenue.Five Views On The Future Of New Orleans' Wetlands The Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle of today is what is called a “ghost swamp”. Until the 1960s, it was a full of cypress ...

Aug 25, 2014 · A Wetland in Crisis: A time lapse of aerial pictures of Bayou Bienvenue in 1952, 1960, and 1976. A formerly thriving freshwater cypress-tupelo swamp, the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle is now a barren saltwater marsh due to canal construction in the 1960s and subsequent saltwater intrusion. In its former glory, as the only part of the Central ...