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==Attempt at incorporation== A referendum on the incorporation of Garyville was held on July 19, 2008, but failed to pass.<ref>[http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/showdown_set_tuesday_in_garyvi.html Showdown Set Tuesday in Garyville Incorporation Suits - Breaking News from New Orleans - Times-Picayune - NOLA.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The proposed city limits of Garyville would have contained several petrochemical industrial sites, providing the bulk of the new city's tax revenue. [[Louisiana Supreme Court]]-appointed ''ad hoc'' judge Anne Lennan Simon ruled on July 15, 2008, that the areas zoned as designated industrial areas included the facilities of [[Marathon Petroleum Company]], Nalco Co., Gramercy Alumina LLC, Cargill Inc., and Evonik-Stockhausen Inc., thus reducing the city's proposed income from "about $144 million to about $28 million."<ref>[http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/garyville_to_decide_if_new_tow.html Garyville to decide if new town is born - Breaking News from New Orleans - Times-Picayune - NOLA.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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