re: South Acadian Thruway at I-10 area Floods again, into the Mestizo Restaurant

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You forgot the bike path from 70805 to downtown, which is expected to experience heavy use.

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No doubt.

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I've never thought of that...I think you're on to something

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That area was already built up before Trader Joe’s.. Remember. There was a wal mart in that spot before the current center... this has to do with some drainage between Dawson’s creek and the mestizos... it always flooded but spread out along the interstates edges.. for some reason the water can’t drain fast enough anymore and just pushes up towards the restaurant

They need to find vacant land or Brec parks along the creeks and use some of the land as overflow or swamp to temp reduce the amount of water in the creeks until the water flow can go down.

It is not 100%.
If it could reduce the flow of water in a creek by a few feet that might help.

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Ever since the whole area around Trader Joe’s was developed

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That area was developed years before trader joes etc. It was walmart and books a million. I cant see how that is the source.

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Why has no one thought of dredging Bayou Manchac to close to the Miss River levee?

Install huge pumps that can pump water both ways. One way to pump water out when needed. The other way to help keep water circulation in the Bayou during low water periods to help with the fishery.

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It’s embarrassing to see how they let Manchac west of Alligator Bayou become. It’s not even a good canal anymore. It’s trashy and overgrown. Some have even put in pipes and built driveways ftom South to North. It’s hard to imagine Manchac was once a vital transportation waterway.

Agreed. No idea how they were allowed to build up that new spot because you know it's going to flood those houses that have been there and now can't drain to the canal. Another case of money talks and bs walks.

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#mestizostrong

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I suspect that Dawson’s Creek, like Bayou Fountain, is getting backed up because they have no place to go as development closer to the EBR/Ascension line continues unchecked and all the runoff overcomes the bullshite retention ponds in these new developments.

But hey, a few developers (and likely a few Metro Council and Planning Commission members) have made bank.

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fricking this.

When you zoom out and look at the fact that the USDA loves to hand out zero percent down loans for rural housing development (and the young people who continuously take advantage of them) it’s almost as if the government wants the flooding.

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This. It seems when BLM needs something, SWB and Latoya the Destroya move quickly. Pot holes and drainage? That's an issue for the next administration.

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They should just have a truck, or a fleet, driving around all the time filling pot holes and clearing out obvious drainage issues. No need for layers and layers of bureaucracy ("work orders") to do it.

I know that there was a study commission formed based on Bodie White’s legislation from 2018 or 19 to address basin wide drainage issues in the Amite/ Manchac basin. It’s definitely a basin wide issue, and there have been a number of bad decisions made locally, by many, that have made this a huge problem. It sounds a lot of you guys are in the know on this. And it’s even worse if you consider that when the lakes are full and backing up from storm surge, the Amite has no place to go, and in fact, starts heading backwards. Also the major cause of flooding on the Northshore rivers and much of New Orleans troubles (besides their self inflicted ones). It’s almost like a giant pumping system needs to be put into place near where the Bonnet Carre is to pump from the lake back to the river during storm events, but that seems like an engineering impossibility.

The real solution is to stop allowing unchecked development in areas that shouldn’t be developed (Burbank corridor) and to quit thinking a couple little pissant retention ponds will keep new developments from flooding everything around and downstream of them.