re: 1,800+ East Baton Rouge Parish homes may need to be raised because of 2016 floods

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Burbank in 2016 fared ok but I can almost guarantee if that rain comes again, there will be devastation. Since 2016, there has been mass development and removal of forestry along Burbank. More concrete and less land to soak up water is a bad combo. The new Walmart, new neighborhoods along the Burbank and siegan curve (hilarious how close those homes are to the creek).

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shift the heavy rains from 2016 a little more west, and the burbank area gets destroyed. the flood waters in burbank area were from back water through amite, manchac, and then bayou fountain/Ward's Creek.

if that rain dumped into the bayou fountain/Ward creek drainage area, then it would of had no where to go and flooded all near those areas....

go look at the LSU flood maps for EBR, nearly all the older areas west of highland are blue.....

LSU flood maps