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

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im not in this field but in school i learned that most design standards state any civil work done on a site has to have the same amount of runoff as it did prior to any development. Hence big catch basins on the corner of parking lots, big culverts under streets in neighborhoods, and (the new trends) big lakes in neighborhoods.

While i can totally see EBR not denying permits because this isnt being done, as they have done with traffic (you are supposed to require any new development, build add to the infrastructure to support that development), But at the new EBR neighborhoods being build and blamed for this a little bit of an over exaggeration?

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Storm water retention ponds are some of the biggest scams of the last 20 years.

During normal periods, they stay a minimum of 3/4 full and all the drainage from the development is piped into them. All the lots are turtlebacked to drain into those stormwater ponds that don't have much capacity before the outfall. Most of the rain water doesn't stay onsite but is essentially moved through a pipeline into the receiving outfall body of water. If they were really that effective, we wouldn't see the problems we see now.