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Few places on the Gulf Coast live as intimately with the water as Bay St. Louis. The town curves around the Bay of St. Louis, with the Mississippi Sound opening to the south and the Jourdan River and a scatter of bayous feeding the bay from the north, and nearly every...

The Bogue Falaya is not a river that announces itself from the road. It slips through Covington beneath a canopy of hardwoods and cypress, widening and narrowing on its way toward the Tchefuncte and eventually Lake Pontchartrain, and the people who live along it tend...

One of the first questions property owners ask when they start planning a seawall is how long the whole thing will take. It is a fair question, because the answer affects when you can start, how you schedule around hurricane season, and when you can finally use the...

Slidell sits at the northeastern corner of Lake Pontchartrain, where the lake narrows toward the Rigolets and a web of bayous, canals, and tidal creeks reaches into residential neighborhoods. For waterfront property owners here, a pier is more than a place to tie up a...

Every dock, boathouse, pier, and seawall built along the Louisiana coast depends on the foundation beneath it. Get the foundation right and the structure above it can last decades with routine maintenance. Get it wrong and even the highest quality framing and decking...

Mandeville's north shore properties sit along one of the most desirable stretches of Lake Pontchartrain waterfront in Louisiana. That desirability comes with a responsibility that many property owners do not fully appreciate until something goes wrong: the bulkhead...

Hurricane season officially runs through the end of November, and by September, Gulf Coast property owners have typically already weathered several named storms. Whether your dock experienced a direct hit or simply endured months of elevated wave action, tidal surge,...

Bay St. Louis sits along one of the most scenic and active waterfront stretches of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where the Bay of St. Louis meets the Mississippi Sound. The community has a deep boating culture, and for waterfront property owners here, a boat lift is one...

Every dock eventually shows signs of age. Boards start to feel soft underfoot, hardware develops rust streaks, and pilings that once stood perfectly straight begin to lean. When that happens, waterfront property owners face a genuine question: is this a repair...