Enforcement Fire Department |
The low crime rate in Plaquemines Parish can be credited to the Sheriff’s office, which handles all of the criminal, civil and tax division operations, as well as police protection throughout the parish. There are 126 full-time deputies, 46 of them providing 24-hour patrol. All 31 patrol cars are radio-equipped to maintain constant contact with radio headquarters in Port Sulphur and the parish prison in Pointe-a-la-Hache.
At the present time fire protection in Plaquemines Parish is provided by nine fire stations organized into six fire departments and manned by 177 volunteer firemen throughout the parish. In addition the parish has marine and mobile equipment which provides fire protection and rescue capabilities on the Mississippi River. |
| The Plaquemines Parish Comprehensive Care Center, located in Port Sulphur, provides basic diagnostic services, home health treatment and 24 hour emergency care. In addition there are more extensive facilities in adjacent parishes on both sides of the river. De La Ronde Hospital in Chalmette is a 118 bed hospital serving the east bank. Several full-service hospitals are also easily accessible in Orleans and Jefferson parishes on the west bank. Residents also have access to the large number of medical facilities located in the regional area, including the LSU and Tulane Medical Centers in New Orleans the Ochsner Foundation Hospital in Jefferson Parish and numerous other public and private medical facilities. | |
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The recreational facilities of Plaquemines Parish includes 572 acres of land comprised of 25 baseball fields, 24 basketball courts, 9 football fields, 18 tennis courts, 19 playgrounds, a swimming pool, 7 auditoriums, 790 boat slips in 4 marinas, and 3 golf courses. Of course water sports are always major activities for visitors and residents of the parish. Boating, skiing, and fishing on local bayous and lakes offer a variety of options. The parish also has access to the vast recreational and cultural facilities of the metropolitan New Orleans area: including the new Aquarium of the Americas, the New Orleans Symphony, opera and ballet, the National Foot- ball LeagueÖs New Orleans Saints, NCAA college athletics from Tulane University, University of New Orleans, Louisiana State University, and others. Two race tracks are also located there. |
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The parish has its own commercial area located along Highway 23 and the Belle Chasse Highway on the west bank. Further north, but still easily accessible are the Belle Promenade Mall and Oakwood Mall. Both are regional shopping centers with ample parking and enclosed landscaped, air-conditioned malls, anchored by major national retailers like Sears, J.C. Penney and Dillard's. On the east bank are commercial areas in Chalmette and New Orleans East.
The New Orleans Central Business District is only a few miles away,with major shopping facilities. The Riverwalk, Canal Place, and New Orleans Centre have added several specialty retail outlets, including national chain outlets like Lord and Taylor, MacyÖs, Brooks Brothers, Sharper Image and Saks Fifth Avenue. |
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The Times Picayune, a Metropolitan daily newspaper from New Orleans, is circulated in Plaquemines Parish. KAGY-AM radio, located in Belle Chasse provides 24 hour country music. In addition, many New Orleans stations are available in Plaquemines Parish including all news stations and a station that reads for the blind and sight impaired. Television stations can be received from New Orleans including all four networks (ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX:). Cable service is also available in the parish and provides up to 22 stations. |
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| Plaquemines Parish enjoys a complete seasonal cycle with pleasant spring and fall seasons. Winter months are usually mild with cold spells of short duration. Snowfall is less than 2" per year. The summer months are quite warm, with an average daily maximum temperature in July and August of 93 degrees. |
| Plaquemines Parish is located in southeast Louisiana. The parish is bordered on the north by Orleans and St. Bernard parishes , on the east by the Breton Sound, on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, and on the west by Jefferson Parish and Barataria Bay. The Parish is bisected by the Mississippi River which provides it with its most important transportation link. The population of the parish is distributed along the Mississippi River. With the recent completion of a new link to the Interstate Highway System in Orleans Parish, a manufacturer can realistically expect third-day truckload service to major markets in 31 states and the District of Columbia. Within this 31-state area are 69 percent of the nationÖs population and 70 percent of its manufacturing plants. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highways |
From Plaquemines Parish, a manufacturer can realistically expect third-day truckload service to major markets in 31 states and the District of Columbia. Within this 31-state area are 69 percent of the nationÖs population and 70 percent of its manufacturing plants. Due to the geography that only provides a narrow band of land on each bank of the river , there is a limited amount of highway available in the parish. The roads that exist are more than adequate for current and future industry along the river. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Belle Chasse Highway) This is the main highway for the west bank of the parish. It is a multi-lane divided highway that extends from the Westbank Expressway in Jefferson Parish across the Plaquemines Parish Line, and runs 70 miles generally along the levee of the Mississippi River, the entire length of the parish to Venice. Highway 23 is on the Federal Aid Primary Highway system and has a variable ROW, with a 24 ft. pavement width and a variable median. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| State Highway 39 On the east bank, State Hwy. 39 enters Plaquemines Parish from St. Bernard Parish on the north, and extends a length of about 39 miles along the levee south to Bohemia. Hwy. 39 is on the Federal Aid Primary Highway System, and has a variable ROW with 24 ft. paved surface. Hwy. 39 is easily accessed from the Interstate 10 System through St. Bernard. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Engineers Road) This 2-lane paved highway on the Federal Aid Secondary program (80 ft. ROW with 24 ft. paved surface), intersects Hwy. 23 half way between the Plaquemines/Jefferson Parish line and the Intracoastal Waterway until it intersects with Peters Road at the Harvey Canal. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Woodland Highway) Highway 406 enters the northern edge of the parish from Orleans Parish via a multi-lane high-rise bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway. Hwy 406 has a 24 ft. paved surface width and extends southward to intersect Hwy. 23 at Belle Chasse. Hebert Road intersects Woodland Highway near the Intracoastal Waterway Bridge and extends directly toward the Mississippi River providing access to the Metropolitan Development Center, the U.S. Coast Guard Station, and F. Edward Hebert Center of Tulane University. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Getting across the river is important to both residential and commercial traffic. In the parish there are two free ferry boat crossings (autos, trucks and pedestrians): one from Belle Chasse to Scarsdale and one from East Pointe-A-La-Hache to West Pointe-A Hache. The ferries operate every half hour from 5:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. During peak periods, ferries operate every 15 minutes at the Belle Chasse crossing. The twin bridges of the "Crescent City Connection" are 10 minutes from Belle Chasse and provide a convenient route to downtown New Orleans and the Interstate system. A toll of $100 is presently charged for travel from west bank to east bank only. |
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Plaquemines Parish is served by the rail lines on both banks of the river. There is 3 to 4 day delivery by rail from Plaquemines Parish to the entire Midwest, the Gulf Coast and points as distant as El Paso and Cincinnati. Rail rates in Louisiana for many commodities tend to be lower than those in the other states because of the competition from barge carriers. The Union Pacific Railroad operates a freight line which roughly parallels Hwy. 23 to just north of Myrtle Grove. #along the levee. Access to regularly scheduled transcontinental railroad shipments can be provided at Westwego rail yards on Highway 18 or the Gouldsboro Yard at Gretna in Jefferson Parish. Union Pacific provides service to the West Coast Ports of Los Angeles, Oakland, Portland, and Seattle. Lines also extend to Chicago, Nebraska, St. Louis and West Texas. On the east bank, Norfolk-Southern Railroad begins at the Amax Nickel Plant and follows Highway 39 north connecting with the main Norfolk-Southern railroad line. Norfolk Southern Corporation offers direct single-system rail service to Kansas City in the west and to Buffalo, NY; Washington D.C. and Jacksonville, FL in the east. Dedicated intermodal service is offered daily between New Orleans and Alexandria, Virginia and between New Orleans and Cincinnati. From New Orleans, CSX Transportation provides rail service in 19 states east of the Mississippi River with over 3,000 locomotives, about 140,000 freight cars and 20,000 route miles of track. CSXT lines stretch eastward to Florida and to the northeast; to Montgomery, Atlanta, and other cities in the Southeast, Middle Atlantic and Great Lakes regions. Kansas City Southern Lines offers service to the heartland of America via New Orleans by rail, related trucking, TOFC and COFC. Illinois Central Railroad handles a significant volume of containers, TOFC and carload traffic between New Orleans and mid-America. The Southern Pacific Railroad provides service to Kansas City, Salt Lake City, and throughout the central corridor to the San Francisco Bay area. |
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Cargo can be delivered by barge from Louisiana to all of mid-America via the 19,000 mile Mississippi River System. Louisiana also sits at the center of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway system that rims the northern Gulf of Mexico. Further, the state itself has 4,500 miles of navigable waterways served by 25 harbor and terminal districts, many of which can issue low-interest industrial revenue bonds to finance manufacturing and storage facilities. Also through the state there is a port construction and priority program that may assist in funding port facilities. |
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Plaquemines Parish is the eighth largest Port in the United States and is part of the world's largest Port Complex. Plaquemines Parish ranks 24 in the world's leading Ports and is noted for its exports of coal, petro-chemical and grain to world markets. Because of its strategic location on the Mississippi River Delta, The Port of Plaquemines Parish is accessible to the Great Lakes, the Mississippi River, and 17 state tributary areas. These routes bring coastal commerce and intercoastal commerce from Florida to Texas, Central and South America, and international destinations throughout the world. The Plaquemines Port, Harbor and Terminal District is responsible for development of deep-draft waterways in Plaquemines Parish and has jurisdiction of 120 miles of the Mississippi River from mile-point 81.7 to the Gulf of Mexico. The Port of New Orleans, which has jurisdiction over river traffic in the parishes of Jefferson, Orleans, and Plaquemines, is one of the largest in the world according to the Army Corps of Engineers. It is served by 14 barge lines and about 100 steamship lines. More than 4,000 ships call annually. In 1987, they carried 44.9 million tons of cargo, worth $10.7 billion. LouisianaÖs lower Mississippi corridor is the leading port area in the world with a total annual tonnage of over 345 million tons. The port area stretches 230 miles inland on both banks of the river with more than 110,000 acres of large, affordable deepwater sites having barge and ship access. There are several campus-type industrial parks suitable for warehouse/distribution operations, offices, sales/service facilities and light manufacturing/assembly. The Port of South Louisiana, the Port of New Orleans and the Port of Greater Baton Rouge are three of the port authorities along this corridor which operate Foreign Trade Zones. Imported materials may be processed or repackaged in these zones without paying United States Customs duties or certain taxes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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New Orleans International Airport (Moisant Field) and New Orleans Lakefront Airport serve southeast Louisiana with more than 20 national and international carriers providing direct passenger and cargo transportation to destinations in the U.S., Europe, Central and South America, and Asia. New Orleans International Airport is 25 miles from Belle Chasse, 50 miles from Pointe-A-La-Hache, and 90 miles from Venice. Sixty-eight Louisiana cities have hard-surfaced public airports, most with night landing capability. Another 250 private airports can accommodate light aircraft. The New Orleans International Airport is moving forward rapidly with a $425 million expansion program to add both VFR and IFR parallel runways and associated taxiways, air cargo areas, terminal building expansions (which will include sixteen new gates and a new international arrivals area designed to accommodate international flights), and a major new general aviation complex. The Lakefront Airport is a general aviation facility only ten minutes away from the parish. Sixty-eight Louisiana cities have hard-surfaced public airports, most with night landing capability. Another 250 private airports can accommodate light aircraft. The major air transportation terminal within the parish is a 3,200 acre military reservation, Alvin Callendar Field, which can accommodate wide-bodied jumbo jet aircraft. There is one privately-owned public use airport, Southern Seaplane, Inc., also located in Belle Chasse, with an airstrip, a heliport, and a seaplane base. The Port of Plaquemines Parish falls within aviation alert area 381 because of the high volume of helicopter and seaplane activity below 2,000 ft. The state registry shows 36 heliports/helipads, 7 seaplane bases, 1 seaplane/heliport base, and 3 airstrips, all privately owned-restricted use, scattered throughout the parish. Only xx minutes away is New Plaquemines International (Moisant Field) This airport is easily accessible via Interstate Highway 10 or U.S. Highway 90. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Delivery |
Passenger rail and bus service are provided by Amtrack and Greyhound at Union Passenger Terminal, in downtown New Orleans. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Carriers |
Over 50 freight carriers service the area including: SAIA Motor Freight Line, Roadway Express, Red Ball, Consolidated, Jones Truck Lines and Yellow Freight Lines.
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