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

Designed correctly a pond is supposed to offset the fill placed in an area. Now the ponds have to be engineered correctly, maintained and kept to their original size and depth.

Not true at all. These ponds are only required to collect the run off from the development in a 10 year flood event. I think they increased it to 25 after 16. It doesn’t address the flooding that is caused North or South of the development by filling in a natural drainage path. Nor affects on existing homes surrounding it. The outrageous amount of building going on needs to be stopped by FEMA and local governments required to develop a recovery plan before another permit is issued. Adding to the problem like we are and it will never get fixed