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Secure .gov websites use HTTPS LDH is moving forward with a plan to distribute food benefits on EBT cards. If the USDA, who administers the SNAP program, is prepared and ready to move money into states’ accounts, we will use federal dollars to fund SNAP recipients’ accounts. If they are not ready, LDH will proceed with our state-funded program to provide food assistance to the elderly, the disabled, and households with children through their existing EBT cards.
About Swimming Advisories
You will know that your beach is being monitored as a part of this program when you see the folded sign.
Whenever the Surgeon General has determined that an area is so polluted as to constitute a menace to health, the sign below shall be conspicuously posted declaring the area as unsuitable for swimming, in addition to the standing "swim at your own risk" notice for all Louisiana waters.
Louisiana's beaches are predominantly used by local and state residents. Notification of the advisory will be targeted at those groups. When indicator organism densities exceed the bacteriological criteria, LDH will immediately issue an advisory. To inform the public that an advisory has been issued, LDH will post the advisory at the beach by flipping the sign located at the sampling location to display the advisory.
An advisory will not be removed until bacteria levels at the sampling location again meet bacteriological water quality criteria.