The 12 caverns within 150 feet of the edge of their salt formations — the estimated distance of the failed Texas Brine cavern — are spread primarily across south Louisiana in eight domes, which are ...

LAKE PEIGNEUR, La. (KLFY) — 40 years ago, a catastrophe like no other occurred in Acadiana. The largest manmade whirlpool and tallest waterfall in the state were created when an oil drill and salt ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — 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 ...

SWLA, La. (KPLC) - A professor at LSU received a grant of over $150,000 to assess the impact on the area’s well water if one of the salt domes in Sulphur were to collapse. Frank Tsai, an LSU Civil and ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Studies of the area where a sinkhole formed last summer in Assumption Parish indicate scientists suspected as early as 1991 that the Napoleonville Dome was not shaped as state ...