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Judge orders Iberville to stop deployment of AquaDams along Manchac Road
Posted on 5/20/21 at 9:32 am
Posted on 5/20/21 at 9:32 am
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With distant storm clouds and high water stirring worries of flooding along Bayou Manchac, a Baton Rouge judge ordered Wednesday that portable dams not be installed along the waterway in Iberville and Ascension parishes.
It’s the second time in less than two years a judge has tried to block the dams amid a politically fraught dispute over flood water around Manchac and Spanish Lake that has tended to pit local parishes against one another.
East Baton Rouge Parish Judge William Morvant barred Iberville and Ascension from deploying what’s known as AquaDams along Manchac’s southern bank — although Iberville has been putting up the structures since Monday.
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Despite the court ruling, Iberville Parish President Mitch Ourso on Wednesday repeated an earlier vow not to take down the dams and said that he would go to jail if needed to keep them up.
He also disputed that Morvant, a state court judge limited to East Baton Rouge Parish, had any sway in Iberville.
It's insane that Iberville is not allowing flood waters to follow their natural path into the Spanish Lake Basin, and risking floods for thousands of residents in EBR and northern Ascension in the process.
IMO the state has to step in, and this needs to be stopped immediately and never allowed again. If homes are flooding because they are IN Spanish Lake, they should be raised or demolished.
By this logic, Baton Rouge should dam up the Amite River and just flood St. Helena and East Feliciana. They don't because it's an asinine thing to do.
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Posted on 5/20/21 at 9:33 am to goofball
The fact that they're allowed to hold that gigantic watershed hostage is absolutely asinine
Posted on 5/20/21 at 9:34 am to goofball
Dam son
Posted on 5/20/21 at 9:34 am to goofball
bullshite.
What he's doing is stopping the reckless development and poor planning of two other parishes from affecting his own.
Mitchell is many things, but he isn't dumb.
Eta:
Iberville has dumped a ton of money into infrastructure projects over the last 20 years.
Why haven't the others?
What he's doing is stopping the reckless development and poor planning of two other parishes from affecting his own.
Mitchell is many things, but he isn't dumb.
Eta:
Iberville has dumped a ton of money into infrastructure projects over the last 20 years.
Why haven't the others?
This post was edited on 5/20/21 at 9:37 am
Posted on 5/20/21 at 9:36 am to goofball
Crazy that they can just block water from entering the floodway in their parish like that, forcing all of it down Bayou Manchac at once.
This should be considered a criminal act.
This should be considered a criminal act.
Posted on 5/20/21 at 9:36 am to goofball
Posted on 5/20/21 at 9:38 am to X123F45
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What he's doing is stopping the reckless development and poor planning of two other parishes from affecting his own.
He's doing this to protect a handful of cheap, shitty homes that built in the floodway without any restriction from Ibberville parish...at the costs of thousands of people in two neighboring parishes.
He should not be able to hold 2/3rds of a natural floodplain hostage like this.
Posted on 5/20/21 at 9:38 am to dewster
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Crazy that they can just block water from entering the floodway in their parish like that, forcing all of it down Bayou Manchac at once.
This should be considered a criminal act.
I figured the USACE would get involved in something like that.
Posted on 5/20/21 at 9:38 am to goofball
Poor planning by the city. Should have done something in 2016.
Water still gets there. They’re just monitoring it so all the Homes don’t flood
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It's insane that Ibberville is not allowing flood waters to follow their natural path into the Spanish Lake Basin
Water still gets there. They’re just monitoring it so all the Homes don’t flood
Posted on 5/20/21 at 9:39 am to upgrayedd
And do what? Highlight all the times the permitting office of ascension and EBR have butt fricked their own natural drainage and spillways?
Posted on 5/20/21 at 9:39 am to goofball
A huge problem throughout human history is that we use waterways as city/county/state/nation boundaries.
Posted on 5/20/21 at 9:40 am to X123F45
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Iberville has dumped a ton of money into infrastructure projects over the last 20 years.
A tiny fraction of the $225 million in projects underway in EBR.
Posted on 5/20/21 at 9:40 am to goofball
F*ck the Advocate for their subscription BS.
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This post was edited on 5/20/21 at 9:44 am
Posted on 5/20/21 at 9:40 am to rt3
In the future, how about reconnecting bayou manchac back to the Ms River and install some gates to prevent flooding when the Ms River is high?
Posted on 5/20/21 at 9:41 am to goofball
Wow, can we have judge vs. judge cage match?
Posted on 5/20/21 at 9:42 am to dewster
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Crazy that they can just block water from entering the floodway in their parish like that, forcing all of it down Bayou Manchac at once.
They can't. That's why a judge ruled against it, putting it on track to a state or federal ruling.
And I agree that this should be criminal, since this was ruled on already in 2016 and in 2019. Ibberville lost those, yet they keep doing this to protect the idiots that built houses literally IN a fricking swamp.
Posted on 5/20/21 at 9:42 am to X123F45
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And do what? Highlight all the times the permitting office of ascension and EBR have butt fricked their own natural drainage and spillways?
They have jurisdiction over these waterways so it seems someone would appeal to them rather than a local court
Posted on 5/20/21 at 9:42 am to dewster
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A tiny fraction of the $225 million in projects underway in EBR.
Fine... A competition perhaps.
Drive through each.
Take whatever path you wish.
Count the non federally funded improvements. Make deductions for every pothole you hit.
High score wins.
Ebr spent the tax dollars, sure.
On what? Basketball courts?
This post was edited on 5/20/21 at 9:44 am
Posted on 5/20/21 at 9:43 am to LSUBanker
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In the future, how about reconnecting bayou manchac back to the Ms River and install some gates to prevent flooding when the Ms River is high?
It would connect through the Spanish Lake basin in Ibberville Parish with pumps to move the water over the levee. As demonstrated, Ibberville doesn't allow the natural watershed to move across its boundaries.
Congrats Ourso, you've got me on the side of Broome on an issue. I didn't think it could be done.
Posted on 5/20/21 at 9:44 am to goofball
Didn't they install giant culverts under that spot after 2016?
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