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LSU lakes master planning work kicks off Wednesday
Posted on 4/16/14 at 6:36 pm
Posted on 4/16/14 at 6:36 pm
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By Emily Lane, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on April 16, 2014 at 1:15 PM, updated April 16, 2014 at 6:02 PM
A metal boat toting fancy equipment and a couple of engineers kicked off a massive project on Wednesday (April 16) in Baton Rouge to preserve the LSU lakes.
Baton Rouge Area Foundation announced late last month it raised money to spearhead planning of the project, which includes dredging and beautification around the six bodies of water that will return their original swampland state if left untreated.
BRAF, which has already raised more than $500,000 in private funds for the master plan, hired Furgo, an engineering firm, to measure the depths of the lakes
The preservation project is necessary because the lakes are gradually returning to swampland, which was their original state before most of them were transformed into lakes in the 1930s. Currently, the depth of the lakes is about two and a half feet, which is far too shallow and creates unhealthy conditions that encourage plants to grow leading to an eventual swampy takeover.
To keep the lakes healthy for the next several decades, the master plan will build on a 2008 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan for dredging the lakes to an average depth of five feet. It will also explore of how to use the dredging spoils, which could potentially provide necessary land to build or shore-up recreational amenities, such as walking paths, so joggers don’t have to share the road with vehicle traffic. BRAF said in a release it would conduct a national search at that point for a landscape architecture firm, which will seek input from the public about how best to use the spoils to improve recreational aspects.
Keep updated with BRAF's LSU lakes master plan at their Facebook page, titled Destination: The Lakes.
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Posted on 4/16/14 at 6:40 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
This is pretty cool
Posted on 4/16/14 at 6:41 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
I thought no motors were allowed. Looks like they have a Mercury.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 6:45 pm to Traffic Circle
this has happened before... look behind studio arms or whatever it is called now. an excuse for new borrow pits.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 7:32 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
Why aren't they looking to LSU landscape architecture school for this? Couldn't they take it on as a continuing project?
Seems like a way to get some seriously good press for LSU and save some $$$ for the project.
Seems like a way to get some seriously good press for LSU and save some $$$ for the project.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 7:34 pm to The Woodpecker
I thought this was pretty cool...
Volunteers
These people are unsung heroes!
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While others figure out who owns the property around University Lake, maintenance falls to volunteers
By Emily Lane, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Parry "Matt" Thomas spends his retirement picking up other people's trash, trimming back overgrowth, sawing dead trees and donning waders to pull up plants that are smothering University Lake.
A row of white garbage cans -- cocked for trash-tossing -- near University Lake where May Street meets East Lakeshore Drive, wouldn't exist without Thomas and a posse of stewards he gathered together.
A volunteer group built and installed the cans after requesting design specs from BREC. The unsecured containers the volunteers previously placed there kept getting stolen or thrown in the lake, said Thomas, an advocate who started a nonprofit devoted to upkeep of the lakes system. The barrels, he said, are from Benny's Car Wash.
The company donated the used soap barrels, and Thomas, along with other volunteers, cut the tops off the containers. They then nailed them at an angle between two planks of wood before securing them to the ground. Except for the color, the trash cans match the green ones across the road, which BREC funded and installed around the perimeter of the adjacent City Park Lake -- an area where ownership and responsibility for maintenance is much clearer.
Volunteers
These people are unsung heroes!
Posted on 4/16/14 at 7:35 pm to fightin tigers
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Why aren't they looking to LSU landscape architecture school for this? Couldn't they take it on as a continuing project? Seems like a way to get some seriously good press for LSU and save some $$$ for the project.
agree completely...it could become a heck of a showcase for the school...
Posted on 4/16/14 at 7:37 pm to fightin tigers
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Why aren't they looking to LSU landscape architecture school for this? Couldn't they take it on as a continuing project?
Seems like a way to get some seriously good press for LSU and save some $$$ for the project.
Great idea!
Posted on 4/16/14 at 7:53 pm to Spankum
Landscape architects know nothing about dredging a lake
Posted on 4/16/14 at 7:54 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
YES
Posted on 4/16/14 at 7:59 pm to fightin tigers
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Posted by fightin tigers Why aren't they looking to LSU landscape architecture school for this? Couldn't they take it on as a continuing project? Seems like a way to get some seriously good press for LSU and save some $$$ for the project.
I'd much rather they leave it to a nationally renowned firm, than students and professors. Plus, I doubt the department is equipped to produce real construction documents.
The real cost is in the construction itself, not the design.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 8:04 pm to Hammertime
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Hammertime
LSU lakes master planning work kicks off Wednesday
Landscape architects know nothing about dredging a lake
Or Managing a watershed...which will do the same thing again,,,,
Posted on 4/16/14 at 8:26 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
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Currently, the depth of the lakes is about two and a half feet
really, thats all
Posted on 4/16/14 at 8:30 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
maybe the fishing will be good again
Posted on 4/16/14 at 8:33 pm to Turkey_Creek_Tiger
Lake is deeper than that in most spots. No idea where they pulled that stat
Posted on 4/16/14 at 8:37 pm to Hammertime
Yeah it is primarily a dredging project
Posted on 4/16/14 at 8:37 pm to Hammertime
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Posted by Hammertime Lake is deeper than that in most spots. No idea where they pulled that stat
I don't know about that. Kayaked it a lot, very very shallow in many places.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 8:39 pm to urinetrouble
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I'd much rather they leave it to a nationally renowned firm, than students and professors. Plus, I doubt the department is equipped to produce real construction documents.
Hopefully since the school is highly (top 3 most years) they have someone capable of pulling this off. Nothing like a college that can't prepare students for actual real world jobs I guess.
Not saying that it would be boatloads cheaper, hell maybe it is the same cost, but would think that landscaping after the major earth work is done should be able to be handled.
Same school though that spent something like 750k on toonces when they have a full art/design school and no telling how many amateurs at the school.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 8:40 pm to Hammertime
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Posted by Hammertime Landscape architects know nothing about dredging a lake
Referring to after the dredging is complete. Would imagine the Corps is handling all of the dredge/fill work.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 8:44 pm to tigers win2
quote:My dog will bounce through 2ft deep water. Once he gets 20yds out in all of the places he has been, he is swimming
I don't know about that. Kayaked it a lot, very very shallow in many places.
quote:How hard is it to understand that is absolutely not a landscape architecture project. This is miles out of the scope of anything anyone in that building has or would do. It is a civil and environmental engineering project only
fightin tigers
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