18 March 2008

sb47 senator joe mcpherson wants to give buhlow lake to the red river waterway district!

SB47 - 2008 Regular Session
Author: MCPHERSON
Summary: PUBLIC PROPERTY: Authorizes the transfer of certain state property in Rapides Parish to the Red River Waterway District. (08/15/08)

buhlow lake
excerpt from bill:
Section 1. The secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals, notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, is hereby authorized and empowered to convey, transfer, assign, and deliver any interest, excluding mineral rights, the state may have to all or any portion of the following described parcel of property to the Red River Waterway District: Lake Buhlow Recreation Area Description:

A certain tract of land, including all improvements located thereon, situated and being in Sections 2, 3, 10, 11, 14, 16, and 17, Township 4 North, Range 1 West, containing approximately 425.16 acres, more or less, Parish of Rapides, State of Louisiana, and more particularly described as follows:

From the intersection of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and Kansas City Southern Railroad in Section 2, being the Point of Beginning, go northwesterly along the south right of way of the Kansas City Southern Railroad a distance of five thousand twenty feet (5,020') to the Mean Low Water Line of Bayou Rigollette thence southerly sixteen hundred feet (1,600') along the Mean Low Water Line of Bayou Rigolette to a point, thence crossing Bayou Rigollette thence southerly fifteen hundred feet (1,500') to the Mean Low Water Line of the left desending bank of Red River; thence easterly on the Mean Low Water Line of Red River to a point of intersection of said Mean Low Water Line and the Section Line between Sections 3 and 10, T4N, R1W, thence easterly along said section line thirteen hundred feet (1,300'), more or less, crossing Bayou Rigollette, to a point on the Mean Low Water Line of the left desending back of Bayou Rigollette; thence southerly two thousand eight hundred feet (2,800'), more or less, to the intersection of the Mean Low Water Line of Bayou Rigollette and the Mean Low Water Line on the left descending bank of Red River, thence southeasterly one thousand six hundred feet (1,600'), more or less, to a point on the north right of way line of the Missouri Pacific Railroad; thence easterly and thence northerly along said Missouri Pacific Railroad right of way, a distance of six thousand four hundred and fifty feet (6,450'), more or less, to the Point of Beginning comprising a total of 425.16 acres; and Water Line - Lake Buhlow Recreation - Phase II
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