[Image: From Yard to Waterway]The future of Louisiana’s water resources begins in your yard. The decisions you make -- from developing a homesite, to landscaping your yard, to fertilizing your lawn -- actually influence the health of Louisiana’s natural waterways and bayous. It is important to remember that nature does not recognize property lines.
A rainstorm can wash bare soil, landscape debris, oil, gas, fertilizers or pesticides from one yard into another. A butterfly attracted to one person’s wildflowers can flit across a property line into another landscape.
Landscapes do not just connect people to the outdoors, they connect one person’s property to the next, forming neighborhoods. These neighborhoods and yards are connected to our waterways and bayous. This connection may be immediate if you are directly linked to a waterway or bayou or gradual, through the flow of storm drains, ditches, creeks, rivers, bayous and groundwater.