The Louisiana Supreme Court has upheld an appeals court ruling on the taxation of underground salt dome caverns that could mean some cavern owners will pay hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars more in property taxes annually to local …
Assumption Parish, La., officials say that the levee around the 26-acre Bayou Corne sinkhole has cracked during a wave of underground micro-tremors. The Advocate reports it’s the same area where the earth-and-limestone levee sank a bit and cracks developed in …
At least 12 salt-dome caverns in Louisiana are as close to the edge of their supporting underground formations as the one that collapsed last year and caused a huge sinkhole in Assumption Parish. Data given to The Advocate by the …