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

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Those houses in the Seigen curve (across from BREC soccer complex) should have never been built.

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I know the ones you are talking about, but I don't think they flooded this week. And since they are newer, they are likely built to a higher elevation than some of the older housing closer to the Gardere/Burbank area.

The big problem there IMO is having people build houses along Manchac road literally inside the Spanish Lake Basin. Ibberville tries to install Aqua dams along the road to flood Baton Rouge and Prarieville just to keep those few houses dry.

In Baton Rouge, there are some apartment complexes built in the 1970s and 1980s that need to be demolished and rebuilt to a higher elevation. The ones on Siegen near the overpass that flooded yesterday and the day before need to go. The ones at the end of Goodwood and in the Flannery/Old Hammond area need to go.

There were also a lot of houses that were built in the same era in Central and far eastern EBR that should be raised a foot or so if possible. Including some along Hurricane Creek in north Baton Rouge near where Don's seafood used to be (until the 2016 flood).