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

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People completely miss this. They think just adding a pond will take care of it. But, those cow pastures soak up a lot of water. Concrete and rooftops shed it way too fast.

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They are retention ponds designed to hold rainwater in flash flooding scenarios to delay at least 80% of the runway long enough for the nearby arterial roads and streets to drain actively.

It's not going to do shite in a backflow situation when the Comite River goes up. Neither will a pasture at that point.