<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: ‘Lucida Sans’;" class="R~sep~ACopyBody">What exactly will the relocation of Prien Lake Road, scheduled to be let this month, entail? How and where will it be relocated?</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">“The relocation of the existing Prien Lake Road will be done as a new alignment,” Deidra Druilhet, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Transportation and Development, wrote in an email.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">“The new alignment of Prien Lake Road will begin north of I-210 at the Holly Hill roundabout, proceeding behind the Target shopping center and connecting to the L’Auberge intersection. This project is currently estimated to let to construction in January 2017.”</span>

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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">Online:</span> <span class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">www.dotd.la.gov.</span>

<span class="R~sep~AHeadBrief">Atchafalaya channel dredged in 1930s</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: ‘Lucida Sans’;" class="R~sep~ACopyBody">Riding down Interstate 10, past the Atchafalaya River, you cross over a body of water called the Whiskey Bay Pilot Channel.</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: ‘Lucida Sans’;" class="R~sep~ACopyBody">Could you tell me where it begins and where it ends? And what was the purpose of this water? I can see that it is dredged and man-made.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">The Whiskey Bay Pilot Channel, dredged over the years 1934-1937, begins, just north of Interstate 10, at a bend in the Atchafalaya River and runs southward for 10 miles or so.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers report from the mid-1930s says dredges in fiscal year 1936 removed more than 8 million cubic yards of material in creating the pilot channel.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">The Whiskey Bay channel was built to cut navigation time, but it now exceeds the Atchafalaya River in width, depth and water flow.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">“The pilot channel provided the depth and steepness to improve water and sediment conveyance within the Atchafalaya system — transporting nearly the entire sediment load from the upper third of the basin,” reads an August 2014 newsletter published by the Louisiana Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">“Today, the Whiskey Bay Pilot Channel is an integral part of the Atchafalaya system and passes approximately 90% of the flow within the main Atchafalaya River channel.”</span>

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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">Online:</span> <span class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">www.charts.noaa.gov/PDFs/11354.pdf.</span>

<span class="R~sep~AHeadBrief">27 players at school from outside district</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: ‘Lucida Sans’;" class="R~sep~ACopyBody">How many Barbe High School football players come from outside the Barbe High School district?</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">“Of the 94 players on the Barbe High School football team, 27 of them are from outside of the Barbe district,” Holly Holland, spokeswoman for the Calcasieu Parish school system, wrote in an email.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">Online:</span> <span class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">www.cpsb.org.</span>

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