It was good Sunday to see two large, metal trash receptacles near the boat ramp at the nearly four-year-old Myette Point Boat Landing in St. Mary Parish.
Hopefully, the litter problem there can be erased, or at the least, minimized, because before the big bins were set up there recently the trash buildup was an eyesore. Two things are going to have to happen for the site to look good: The bins must be emptied regularly and people must use the bins.
One angler who pulled his boat out Tuesday afternoon after a day of fishing in the Atchafalaya Basin said as much about the regular emptying of the trash receptacles being the key. An overstuffed, overfilled bin will only add to the problem, he said while he secured his vessel on the boat trailer.
And judging by the amount of trash on the ground around the bins Sunday, apparently some people either don’t care that the bins are for trash or they have a bad aim, or a combination of both. The land around the trash receptacles was littered with everything from paper goods to plastic bottles to metal objects.
The 22-acre site is located inside the West Atchafalaya Basin Protection Levee, approximately four miles east of Charenton. It is accessible from Louisiana 87 via the Martin-Ridge Road.
Myette Point Boat Landing has become a favorite place to launch for many Teche Area outdoorsmen, including me, from Franklin to St. Martinville, Erath to Loreauville. Two anglers who used it Sunday morning were from Kaplan.
The state-of-the-art boat landing has a four-lane boat ramp (60 feet wide by 100 feet long), a canoe launching ramp, a floating courtesy dock, concrete boat landing apron, restroom facilities and a crushed stone parking area for tow vehicles and boat trailers.
It’s bad enough for our resident outdoorsmen to see it at its trashiest, particularly when it was at its worst for about three years after the ribbon-cutting in October 2010, but it’s really embarrassing when you consider visitors get an eyeful, too.
I hope everyone will pitch in to make it a cleaner site.
DON SHOOPMAN
SENIOR NEWS EDITOR
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