ST. MARTIN PARISH — A few months ago, two cousins, Dominick and Alex Chaillot set out to clean the bayou with little more than determination and free weekends. Since then, their mission has grown into a community-backed effort that’s changing the way people look at local waterways.

Dominick said, “Amazing quite frankly. The waters are down which has exposed a lot more litter. We’ve been out there cleaning up everything. We’ve been able to get to areas we weren’t able to get into before.”

For Alex, the work is about more than hauling debris. “You know it’s work,” he said, “but we understand we’re picking up decades worth of trash out here. This is from a long time. A lot of this stuff we’re now digging out of embedded mud on the bayou banks as we’ll see soon.”

The cousins showed how far

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