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Chalmette

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Chal·mette  (shl-mt)
A village of extreme southeast Louisiana on the east bank of the Mississippi River just below New Orleans. It is a processing center. Population: 32,000.


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The sole practitioner from the New Orleans suburb of Chalmette was lucky to be out of the state with her family when Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005, submerging her home and office under nine feet of water.
One of the most notorious spills occurred at the Murphy Oil Company plant, which dumped more than 25,000 barrels of oil into the streets of Chalmette and Meraux, Louisiana.
General Jackson's badly outnumbered force had dug in on very defensible ground in Chalmette, about five miles downriver from New Orleans.
 
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