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Spot dredging to begin on Bayou Vermilion
Crews will begin digging out shallow sections of the Bayou Vermilion on July 8, the Boulet administration announced Wednesday.
Crews will begin digging out shallow sections of the Bayou Vermilion on July 8, the Boulet administration announced Wednesday.
A settlement with federal regulators may be in sight on the beleaguered Homewood and Coulee Ile des Cannes detention pond projects. But it’s likely to add to already hefty costs.
Construction was paused the day after it began.
Tens of millions were spent on projects that remain incomplete or locked up in litigation. Outstanding reimbursements from the state could “destabilize” parish finances if LCG is not made whole.
Source: Boulet team works to resolve controversial drainage projects | News | theadvocate.com
The state’s current problem with reimbursement is that the more than 2-year-old detention project still isn’t functioning.
The biggest outages in Acadiana are Acadia and St. Landry Parish, according to SLEMCO and Entergy outage maps. Over 57% of St. Landry Parish residents are without power as of noon with the major outages in Opelousas and the city’s surroundings, SLEMCO maps show. That number was nearly 70% earlier in the day.
Source: The Advocate
The first member of the committee to speak on the issue was Sen. John Kennedy, R-La, who said the National Flood Insurance Program needed to be reworked. The old model before Risk Rating 2.0 was flawed, but the new model is worse, he said.
Source: The Advertiser
Weather Forecast for Monday, January 8th, 2024: Monday’s forecast could bring the year’s first round of severe weather
Source: KATC
A minor storm offered the first test — or maybe a quiz — of many new drainage improvements in Lafayette last week to mixed results.
As Lafayette voters head to the polls Saturday to decide the mayor-president election, daylight has been hard to find between the two candidates on local issues.
State officials want to divert the Louisiana Watershed Initiative’s third and final round of local project funding, potentially bypassing communities waiting to apply.
Journalism has a duty to ask questions, and an obvious one raised by a problem is how we might fix it. Elections offer an ideal platform for that inquiry.
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