re: Judge orders Iberville to stop deployment of AquaDams along Manchac Road

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Because the people building "where is doesn't drain" are building on and filling in areas that would be holding water.

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It’s true. They are building to ever higher elevations. And there is demand to support that extra cost.

But all this is doing is speeding the runoff into the Spanish Lake Basin. It would have happened either way. It would be wise to require piers for building in the low lying areas in the basis that people have decided to develop.