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Contingency plan needed for I-12....
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:32 pm
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:32 pm
Who can we contact? I-12 center barrier has no flow through drainage from the Amite River to Satsuma exit. August 2016 the north side of 1-12 was 4’ deep while the south side was clear.
Rain estimates are 25”+ possible for Livingston Parish. Someone needs to start knocking a few holes in that dam - NOW!!!
Rain estimates are 25”+ possible for Livingston Parish. Someone needs to start knocking a few holes in that dam - NOW!!!
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Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:33 pm to AncientTiger
One would think this issued would have been resolved by now. Just like the Comite River Diversion canal.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:34 pm to AncientTiger
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Who can we contact? I-12 center barrier has no flow through drainage from the Amite River to Satsuma exit. August 2016 the north side of 1-12 was 4’ deep while the south side was clear.
Rain estimates are 25”+ possible for Livingston Parish. Someone needs to start knocking a few holes in that dam - NOW!!!
I nominate you. You go knock some holes in that damn dam.
And post video on here.
This post was edited on 7/9/19 at 2:38 pm
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:34 pm to AncientTiger
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Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:35 pm to EST
Believe it or not, work has started on the canal. If they started on it the day following the flood, it still wouldn’t be done
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:35 pm to AncientTiger
I’m sure someone will if the river starts backing up.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:35 pm to EST
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One would think this issued would have been resolved by now. Just like the Comite River Diversion canal.
I thought the diversion canal was actually being worked on (as opposed to the monumental amount of ignoring the I12 Dam has been the subject of).
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:39 pm to Bard
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I thought the diversion canal was actually being worked on (as opposed to the monumental amount of ignoring the I12 Dam has been the subject of).
I think he's referring to the fact that taxpayers were paying for that mfer for 15 years and it wasn't built before the 2016 flood when they KNEW it would be necessary in a catastrophic flood event.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:39 pm to AncientTiger
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Rain estimates are 25”+ possible for Livingston Parish.
Where are you getting this number from?
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:41 pm to AncientTiger
Just buy a house on the south side of I-12. Problem solved.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:44 pm to AncientTiger
Solid plan to get that fixed...consider your work done.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:44 pm to AncientTiger
A sump pump on the north side should take care of that problem for you.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:44 pm to AncientTiger
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Who can we contact?
Whoever you contact will get on it right away. That's how government works.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:47 pm to AncientTiger
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Who can we contact? I-12 center barrier has no flow through drainage from the Amite River to Satsuma exit. August 2016 the north side of 1-12 was 4’ deep while the south side was clear.
Rain estimates are 25”+ possible for Livingston Parish. Someone needs to start knocking a few holes in that dam - NOW!!!
If my property were threatened by that thing I would rent a bulldozer and at the first sight of floodwaters, run right through that thing
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:48 pm to AncientTiger
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Someone needs to start knocking a few holes in that dam - NOW!!!
Sounds like a job for the cajun navy demolition division.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:48 pm to AncientTiger
DOTD is being sued by the City of Walker over that, so they probably think that putting openings in the divider now would be an admission of guilt. 
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:50 pm to AncientTiger
Go out there and knock some scuppers into that thing...problem solved.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:51 pm to AncientTiger
I'm pretty sure "knocking a few holes" in the barrier could cause it to structurally fail, when the lovely I-12 speeders crash into it. Which opens up new problems.
Having said that, they have known about this problem for 3 years, and the fact they have done nothing to solve it is both very depressing and completely unsurprising.
Having said that, they have known about this problem for 3 years, and the fact they have done nothing to solve it is both very depressing and completely unsurprising.
This post was edited on 7/9/19 at 2:58 pm
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:52 pm to tigerbutt
quote:do peoeple not realize that if there was no I-12 barrier twice as many people would have flooded than what did.
I’m sure someone will if the river starts backing up.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:52 pm to Grit-Eating Shin
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DOTD is being sued by the City of Walker over that, so they probably think that putting openings in the divider now would be an admission of guilt.
My favorite concept in Civil Law. Something wrong? Well don’t fix it now, that will just screw you more.
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