How will south Louisiana spend $1.2B flood-fighting credit? Levees, diversions, dredging?

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How will south Louisiana spend $1.2B flood-fighting credit? Levees, diversions, dredging?

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Now that the Comite River Diversion Canal has received the $343 million needed from the federal government to begin construction, all eyes are on a $1.2 billion pot that will pay for the next generation of south Louisiana flood control.

Several projects are in the works, and officials are laying the groundwork to pitch others. The thought of pumping Bayou Manchac is falling out of favor and the Darlington Reservoir is still a dream, but there are plans like knocking out a ridge under La. 22 in Ascension Parish and dredging at least part of the lower Amite River in Livingston Parish — though it remains to be seen whether dredging larger stretches is in the cards

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East Baton Rouge leaders are celebrating a $255 million award to clear, dredge and widen five parish waterways: Bayou Fountain, Jones Creek, Beaver Bayou, Ward Creek and Blackwater Bayou.

Authorities are tugging the reins a bit — in the decades since the proposal was first advanced, there's been new riparian development. Some stretches of waterways, especially Jones Creek, were to be lined with concrete to slough water downstream faster, but engineers are investigating whether that's still a good idea, or if it would exacerbate flooding farther down the line

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