Judge orders Iberville to stop deployment of AquaDams along Manchac Road

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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.

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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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