The state department of transportation is starting a new program that will allow businesses to get involved in cleaning up the litter along state highways. The “Sponsor a Highway” program will start in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette and Shreveport, with the hopes of expanding. DOTD Spokesperson Rodney Mallett says they spend 13-million dollars a year on litter removal efforts and this is a chance for private dollars to help.
For more information go to adoptahighway.com.
The state is reporting three more hospitalizations because of Vibrio vulnificus, also known as a flesh-eating bacteria. State Epidemiologist Doctor Theresa Sokol says you can become infected by eating raw seafood from exposed waters but most people infected were exposed through open wounds. She says if you have a wound stay out of brackish and salt waters.
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Sokol says typically, at this time of year, we see less than ten cases but so far this year, 20 people have been hospitalized and four people have died.
Thirty thousand solar panels have been installed at Fort Polk that will provide energy to 18-hundred miliary homes. Military bases historically have relied on civilian power grids for their energy, making them vulnerable to natural disasters, cyberattacks, and physical attacks. Bartost Wojszyk (Voice-chick), is the President of Energy at Corvias and says this 13-megawatt power generation project is completely independent, moving Fort Polk closer to its goal of readiness..
Corvias invested 29-million dollars in the project.