The Staring Road Project Does Not Seem to Have Adequately Considered the Impact to Bluebonnet Swamp

The Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center is located in the Bayou Fountain drainage basin, which flows to Bayou Manchac.  Bluebonnet Swamp is a 65-acre cypress-tupelo-maple swamp located on the west side of Bluebonnet Road, between Highland Road and Perkins Road, in the City of

Baton Rouge. The swamp has been identified as one of the state's best remaining natural areas and wildlife habitats.

Watershed Map of Baton Rouge

http://brgov.com/dept/planning/pdf/bulletins/bull42.pdf

Mitigating Nonpoint Source Pollution in Urban Watersheds

http://brgov.com/dept/planning/pdf/hydrolic.pdf

Conservation Map of East Baton Rouge Parish (June 2008)

http://brgov.com/dept/planning/StSubMaps/Conservation.pdf

Environmental Sensitivity Map

http://nosimagery.noaa.gov/images/esi/pdf/Louisiana_ESI112.PDF