The Taradiddles
The Taradiddles
The Taradiddles
Lake Peigneur Disaster
19 minutes Posted Aug 14, 2019 at 10:18 am.
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The Taradiddles latest podcast discuss another piece of Louisiana and American history as they discover a man made disaster from the 1980's that can still be seen today. An engineering disaster by a survey missed calculation that changed the geography of the area. At the center of it all a salt mine and Texaco. The story of how a fresh water lake,Lake Peigneur, was converted to a salt water lake overnight. Luckily this disaster due to safety drills and planning around the area did not end in deaths but only lost of property.

 

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